Multisector Collaboration on Dementia Is Focus of First-Ever GSA Forum
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) will debut a virtual event format called GSA Forum with Connecting Health Care, Public Health, and Community for Dementia Detection and Care, taking place June 16 and 17. Reporters intending to cover the forum may request media registration by contacting news@geron.org.
Designed as an interactive and application-focused experience, the GSA Forum series will bring together researchers, clinicians, and community-based organizations. In this first event, forum faculty will highlight exemplar initiatives and creative solutions aimed at promoting brain health and improving dementia detection and care.
The inaugural GSA Forum program aligns with the KAER (kickstart, assess, evaluate, refer) framework, a structured approach GSA developed to support brain health and improve early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care and community settings.
Each day will consist of two one-hour programming blocks consistent with sections of The GSA KAER Toolkit for Brain Health, and will feature experts from multiple sectors presenting actionable strategies to improve brain health and dementia care. The sessions are designed to be interactive with the opportunity for Q&A with the presenters at the conclusion of each hour.
GSA members Soo Borson, MD, FGSA, and Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS, FACP, will serve as moderators.
“Effective and sensitive dementia detection, diagnosis, and care require individuals from health care, community service, and public health sectors who are committed to collaboration to build and sustain three-sector communities of practice,” said Borson, who serves as co-lead of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Early Detection of Dementia and a professor of clinical family medicine at the University of Southern California.
“This timely event will be the ideal venue for the presentation of research and best practices related to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias,” said Chodosh, director of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at NYU Langone, the Michael L. Freedman Professor of Geriatric Research at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and co-lead of the BOLD Center of Excellence on Early Detection of Dementia. “The GSA KAER Toolkit for Brain Health stands out as a distinctive resource in supporting brain health across the lifespan. It is among the few that offer a comprehensive continuum, providing evidence-based strategies and tools.”
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The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) was founded in 1945 and is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization focused on aging. It serves more than 6,000 members in over 50 countries. GSA’s vision, meaningful lives as we age, is supported by its mission to foster excellence, innovation, and collaboration to advance aging research, education, practice, and policy. GSA is home to the National Academy on an Aging Society (a nonpartisan public policy institute) and the National Center to Reframe Aging.