Thursday, 12th June Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Sessions are available to view via livestream, in the parents room

• Care of CALD older adults - Fiona Tran, Lee-Fay Low and Vasi Naganathan

• Innovative approaches to teaching geriatric medicine - Janani Thillainadesan, Susan Ogle, Andrew Teodorczuk, Alison Mudge and Grace Pearson

• Surviving and Thriving with Advanced Trainee Projects - Danielle Ní Chróinín and Chris Moran

• Physical Comorbidities of Dementia - Susan Kurrle
• Advances in Dementia with Lewy Bodies  - Rosie Watson
• People with dementia deserve better: exploring models of palliative care for people with dementia  - Elissa Campbell

• Characteristics, Long Term Outcome and Prognostic Factors of the Patients Aged over 90 Admitted to a VIC Regional Hospital - Anne Duncan
• A Single Centre Study of Characteristics of Surgical Patients at Risk of Adverse Outcomes Post MET Call - Aubrey Wood
• Five-year mortality in patients presenting to a tertiary hospital memory clinic in Melbourne, Australia.    - Laura Gilbertson
• Empowering older frail people to make their own end of life choices - Peter Gonski
• Using kidney transplantation to investigate changes in frailty and potential epigenetic markers of frailty. - Emily H Gordon
• Important outcomes for frail patients admitted to hospital with peripheral arterial disease, their caregivers and their clinicians: A Nominal Group Technique and qualitative study. - Emily H Gordon
• Implementing Innovative Models of Care (IMOC) in Regional Australia: Insights from the IMOC Grant Initiative.   - Desmond Graham
• Potential for Medication Simplification in Nursing Home Residents in Japan: A Multi-Centre Cross-Sectional Study - Shota Hamada
• End of life care for older adults who receive home medical care: Perspectives from Japan. - Yukari Hattori
• Screening and baseline results from the donanemab phase 3 study in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease - Michael Woodward
• Unravelling the relationship between pain, responsive behaviours and caregiver burden - Jeff Hughes
• PRIOC; Predictive ability of preoperative Multi-Domain Risk Stratification model for in-patient outcomes in Older patients with acute cholecystitis undergoing Cholecystectomy: retrospective prognostic study - Mayura Iddagoda
• Busselton Healthy Ageing Study Hip DEXA scan to assess Kellgren Lawrence Hip OA Grading and DEXA scores in identifying progression to Total Hip Replacement. - Lisa Redgrave
• Utility of Bone Turnover Markers and the Impact of Denosumab Cessation and Age in Patients Undergoing Dentoalveolar Surgery - Karen Quinlan
• Outcomes of Bedside Cardiac Monitoring in Acute Ischaemic Stroke Patients: A Retrospective 6-Month Study in a Regional Hospital - Nareshraja Janardanan

• Dementia Prevention: Insights from Geroscience, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine - Sarah N Hilmer
• New Frontiers in Dementia Diagnosis and Care - Paul Yates

12:10pm - 12:30pm Panel Discussion
Prof Maria Eriksdotter, Prof Susan Kurrle, A/Prof Paul Yates, Prof Sarah Hilmer, Anna Burke

Session Title: Advancing Clinical Insights: Real World Experiences with Amyloid Targeting Therapies  
Speaker: Dr Anna Burke

• Prevalence and factors influencing prescription of oral anticoagulation in people over 80 years old with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: a systematic review. - Kanchuka Gunaratna
• Palliative care needs of residential aged care facility residents admitted to a Hospital in the Home service - Angela Zeng
• Reducing heart failure re-admissions and improving quality of life for heart failure patients across one tertiary centre.  An analysis of patients over 80 years of age. - Anita MacGregor
• Cognitive assessment of kidney transplant recipients in memory clinic – cognitive diagnosis and longer-term outcomes - Giselle Bennett
• Rehabilitation outcomes in haemodialysis patients: the role of frailty - Nishi Khetani
• Evaluating The Effectiveness of SARC-F and Its Modifications in Detecting Sarcopenia Risk in Community Dwelling Older Adults - Nareshraja Janardanan
• Perceived Unmet Needs of Informal Caregivers of Patients With Dementia Treated at a Singapore Community Hospital - Jeffrey Jiang
• Inequality in access to TAVI - Yasith Kamaladasa
• Enhancing nutrition management in patients with hip fracture: a clinical audit and quality improvement project - Karolina Kanczuga
• Diagnostic characteristic of the Thai Version of the 3-Minute Diagnostic Interview for Delirium (3D-CAM-TH) Among Hospitalized Older Patients: A Focus on Medical Students - Teerabhumi Keoprasom
• Better healthcare for older Canberrans: dementia-related emergency department (ED) presentations and admitted patient care in ACT public hospitals - Mary Ann Kulh
• Braden Skin Score and its Association with Frailty and Functional Outcomes - Samantha Lee
• Machine Learning-Based Predictive model for Mortality in Older Patients with Hip Fractures, a nation-wide study from a low to middle income country. - Natthapat Leelakitsub
• Small-scale Residential Dementia Care Settings in Australia – Where are they and what are the characteristics of the care settings? - Robyn Lewis
• Frailty and disease stage in older people living with chronic kidney disease - Benignus Logan
• Psychometric evaluation of the Unmet Needs Instrument for Carers of People with Dementia (UNI-C) - Elise Mansfield
• Geriatricians in the emergency department: a pilot study - Jessica Manzoni
• Frailty and chemotherapy intensity in newly diagnosed older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) - Navin T Mathew
• Development of an acute hospital fall prevention program - Charlotte McLennan
• Impact of Lemborexant on Daytime Sleepiness/Alertness in Participants With Comorbid Insomnia and Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Fiona Gardiner
• Partnered pharmacist medication deprescribing: a collaborative approach to deprescribing sedatives & anticholinergics  - Nadia Mouchaileh
• Improved care for older adults following the introduction of an emergency department falls pathway: a clinical audit - Bertrand Nheu
• Comparison of older and younger hospitalised patients with gout: a retrospective chart review - Danielle Ní Chróinín
• Survey of early supported discharge programs (ESDP) for low-trauma hip fracture patients in Australian public hospitals - Danielle Ní Chróinín
• Prevalence and Management of Depression Among Parkinson’s Patient’s in an Outpatient Clinic Setting - Emma Parker
• A Review of Osteoporosis Management on Discharge from a Regional Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit - Lachlan G Paterson
• Preparing tomorrow’s doctors for the ageing population: evaluating the impact of undergraduate education in geriatric medicine on postgraduate specialty recruitment - Grace ME Pearson
• A review of the geriatric medicine content in African Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines Lists  - Grace ME Pearson
• Dementia rehabilitation training for medical and nursing professionals - Marianne Piano
• Improving Dementia Post-Diagnostic Support Through Registry-Driven Quality Improvement - Lauren Priest
• Emergency Hospital in the Home (EHITH): Description and outcomes of an acute community geriatric outreach program. - Ramya D Rajkumar
• A Pilot Study on the prevalence of Persistent Opioid uSe in older Hip Fracture Patients (POSH) - Su Dr Ross
• Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of the Association Between Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype and Hypertension - Nor Izzati Saedon
• The Validation of a Web-Based Self-Administered Screening Tool for Dementia in Thai Older Adults - Rapas Samalapa
• Evaluating a multidomain frailty index from routine health data in older patients with and without dementia in Australian hospitals - Noriko Sato
• Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH), a 12-month review. - Jess Turner

• Does a system-wide electronic prescribing change improve adherence to denosumab therapy for older adults with osteoporosis? - Michael Angputra
• Cost-consequence analysis of the introduction of a Traumageriatric Service to a metropolitan Melbourne hospital - Philip Belleville
• Non-operative versus Operative Management of Hip Fractures in Australia and New Zealand: a Retrospective Cohort Study - Carla Davies
• Risk of Hypocalcaemia and Hypophosphataemia in Older Patients Receiving Denosumab and Iron Infusion After Hip Fracture Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study - Sarah Elshafiey
• Microlearning in geriatric medicine: short, sharp, effective - Carol L Hunter
• Impact of Limited English Proficiency on Cognitive Enhancer Prescription Rates in Patients with a New Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease - Eva Stachnik

• Investigating clinical outcomes of Transitional Aged Care Programme (TACP) patients transferred through Hospital in the Home (HITH) - Alan Truong
• The Key Worker model effectively improves patient and family communication on a geriatric rehabilitation ward. - Yannis Tang
• Perspectives of older adults over three months following an inpatient rehabilitation stay: an interview analysis - Aneesha kaur Bhagat Singh
• Patient, carer and staff perspectives on sleep on the geriatric and rehabilitation unit   - Tiffany Hoang
• Can the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program surgical risk calculator predict geriatric outcomes in patients undergoing surgical repair of neck of femur fractures? - Tessa Lo
• The Impact of a Perioperative care of Older Adults undergoing Surgery (POPS) clinic on Goals of Care completion: Findings from an Australian retrospective cohort study   - Johanna Lee

• Implementing a perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) service: a guide for clinical leaders - Margot E Lodge
• Utility of preoperative risk screening tools for predicting complications after orthopaedic surgery: a validation study - Alexa Yao
• Geriatric Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients have Significantly Increased Cardiovascular and Infectious Disease Mortality After Fracture - Owen Taylor-Williams
• Patient, Carer and Healthcare Professional Perspectives on Deprescribing in Surgical Wards: A Mixed Methods Study - Bonnie M Liu
• Links between Falls in Hospitals and Professional Fulfillment, Burnout, and Workplace Culture: A Scoping Review - Veethika Nayak
• The BIO-VAC Study: A Prospective Observational Study of Burden in Older Persons of Vascular Access and Cannulation - Lorenza Harrowell

• The use of Western Australia’s emergency departments by individuals aged 65 years or older living in the community and residential care facilities - Leon Flicker
• Goals of frail older people living with chronic kidney disease - Benignus Logan
• Telephysiotherapy intervention increased mobility and reduced falls in aged care: the effects and costs from the TOP UP Study - Rik Dawson
• Healthy ageing: Relationship between falls, physical function and physical activity from mid-life - Venisa Wing S Kwok
• Sex differences in the treatment and control of hypertension among older Australians - Issada Trakarnwijitr
• Tau deposition in dementia with Lewy bodies: A multimodal clinical and imaging study  - Kai Sin Chin

• Reimagining Dementia Care: Co-Designing Effective Home Rehabilitation Interventions - Nathan M D'Cunha
• Evaluating lowered amyloid beta positron emission topography (PET) as a surrogate endpoint for clinically relevant reduction in cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD): A systematic review and meta-regression. - Aidan C Symonds
• Undiagnosed Dementia in Residential Aged Care: Prevalence, Associated Factors and Impact on Health Outcomes Over 12 Months           - Reena Dr Tewari
• Vitamin D and the Older Adult: A Closer Look at Community-Dwelling Inpatients in A Regional Victorian Hospital - Ali Uthuman
• A Post Hoc Efficacy Analysis of Phase 3 Trials of Continuous Subcutaneous Foslevodopa/Foscarbidopa in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease - Jenny Waern
• The Application of Plasma P-tau217 in a Memory Clinic focusing on Chinese Patients - Tsz King Dr Wong
• Behavioural and Cognitive Outcomes in the Elderly Post-Concussion   - Mitchell Woods
• Clinical Relevance of Donanemab Treatment - Michael Woodward
• Impact of Dementia mate wareware and solutions for Equity in Aotearoa (IDEA): A work in progress - Xiaojing Wu
• The prevalence of apathy in Lewy body dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Jenny Jia Yu
• Neuropsychiatric symptoms and their clinical associations in dementia with Lewy bodies - Jenny Jia Yu
• The impact of a geriatric Rapid Access Clinic on ED presentation and hospitalisation - Amy Zhang

• Sweet Dreams are Made of Amines: Results of a randomized controlled trial of Melatonin for delirium treatment in older adults. - Peter W Lange
• Fall prevention in older adults: updated Australian guidelines - Cathie Sherrington
• National consensus statement: Prevention and management of frailty among community-dwelling older adults  - Ruth Eleanor Hubbard
• Post-diagnostic rehabilitation: Outcomes of the multicomponent SPICE program for people with dementia and care partners - Nathan M D'Cunha

• Mobile Health Applications on Frailty: A Scoping Review - Susan Li
• How does a Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) rotation influence a prevocational doctor’s knowledge and attitudes towards caring for older patients? - Julia Ong
• Exploring the accuracy of a contactless sensor for measuring vital signs in elderly hospital inpatients - Meng Susan Fu
• Describing the digital health literacy of older patients in an Australian Geriatric Evaluation and Management inpatient population - Matthew J Pappas

• Tolerability of immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer treatment in frail, geriatric patients.  - Rochelle T Sheppard
• Deprescribing an older person’s medications in hospital: variability & predictors of deprescribing in older adults’ hospital discharge summaries from six NSW public hospitals. - Marion C Matheson
• Patient experiences with medicinal cannabis use in a geriatric outpatient clinic cohort - Wendi Hoang
• A local audit of the management of exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in geriatric inpatients and the effect of a brief education session on prescribing attitudes.  - Wei Chen Yeoh

• The Effects of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea on Cognition and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in Older Age: The SNORE-ASA study - Stephanie Ward
• Long-term evaluation of advanced Parkinson's disease burden and clinical outcomes: results from the PROSPECT observational study - Jenny Waern
• What digital decoding can tell us about how people living with moderate to severe dementia experience pain - Jeffery Hughes
• Survival Differences Amongst Nursing Home Residents with Life-Limiting Illness Under Home Hospice Follow Up - Yun Cao

*Ticketed event

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48 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont