Thursday, 11th May Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

• Vestibular dysfunction and falls - Ann Rahmann

• Addressing Hearing Loss to Promote Psychosocial, Cognitive and Physical Wellbeing for Older Adults: The Audiology Perspective - Barbra H Timmer
• Ophthalmology and Geriatrics - Diana Conrad

• Improving nutrition for older adults - Adrienne Young
• Presenting with Adrienne Young - Alison Mudge

• Brain failure: Dementia and delirium - Kenneth Rockwood
• Changes in sleep with ageing and approaches to common sleep disorders in older adults - Claire Ellender

• Frailty is associated with presentation for falls and delirium, and increased risk of in-hospital complications: a prospective cohort study in a Medical Assessment Unit (MAU)   - Fiona Tran
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Elderly Patients with Osteoporotic Hip Fracture (HF) - Siti Nur Fariza Binti Nordin
• Urinary catheter-related emergency department presentations for residential aged care facility patients - Abbie Kanagarajah
• Effects of a geriatric emergency department team in reducing hospital admissions for older adults presenting to the emergency department - Sarah Cooper
• Relationship between casemix from Residential in Reach (RIR) program and the average Length of Stay (LOS) under Hospital in the Home (HITH) - Bing Chang
• Providing high value care for older adults in New South Wales (NSW): A mixed-methods analysis of clinician’s experiences - Friedbert Kohler
• The Case for Change: Value Based Healthcare (VBHC) for Older People in the Community – optimising the care of older people in NSW - Friedbert Kohler
• Foot problems in older adults presenting to a falls and balance clinic - Josephine White
• Feasibility of a nurse-led Criteria Led Discharge (CLD) initiative in acute care of the elderly (ACE) ward and delirium care unit. - Brendan Foo
• Direct oral anticoagulant use and hip fracture surgery in older adults: a retrospective chart review - Cyn Mun Celine Chan
• Hospital-acquired incontinence: a prospective study of prevalence, incidence and impact - Alison M Mudge
• Quality Care for People with Hip Fracture: A survey of hospitals in New South Wales, Australia - Danielle Ní Chróinín

• The Queensland Frail Older Person Collaborative - Elizabeth Whiting
• PIT Stop - Emma Losco
• Falls in Hospital - Vasi Naganathan
• Research in long term care - Len Gray

•    Overweight and Obesity in a Specialist Older Person Mental Health Unit - Terry Vu
• Models of Aged Care: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Danielle Ní Chróinín
• Hospital In The Home (HITH) services to support delivery of palliative care to residents of Aged Care Facilities (RACF)  - Seok Lim
• Multimorbidity patterns in community-dwelling older adults - Ruth Teh
• The COVID Pandemic and Beyond: Trends in Falls Presentations Amongst Older People - Danielle Ní Chróinín
• The prevalence of falls and associated factors in older adults of the Torres Strait - Roselani I Henry
• An Audit of Readmission Rates in the Geriatric Population at Fremantle Hospital - Alison O'Connor
• Evaluating the value and utility of computed tomography as part of the in-hospital post falls clinical pathway - Puneet Prasad
• Understanding the family caregiver's perspective on delirium - Sharanya Athithan
• Documentation of cognitive impairment screening and advance care planning amongst older hospitalised Australians: A prospective mixed method study   - Radhika Rice
• Retrospective data on characteristics and outcomes of patients with hip fracture in Acute Orthogeriatric Model with delirium and without delirium at John Hunter Hospital from May 2021 to May 2022 - Jo-Anne Ponce
• Exploratory Study on Antecedent Behaviours leading to Prescribing Changes in Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia - Yung Fatt Nelson Lee
• Geriatric Oncology Clinic: A retrospective study of patient characteristics and effects on management - Ki-Yung Luo
• An audit of sedative agents for behavioural disturbances in an Australian elderly inpatient population, comparing the years before and during the coronavirus pandemic 2020 - Cuong Do
• Nutritional risk is associated with hospital related harms in older adults participating in home-based rehabilitation. - Lauren E Gilbert
• Redefining the transfer medication management plan for subacute inpatients. A pilot study. - Angela Shiu
• Value adding – appropriateness of emergent transfer of aged care residents - Mitchell Cox
• Prevalence of geriatric syndromes in an older outpatient oncology cohort and predictors of survival. - Nicola Bailey
• Improving Opportunistic COVID-19 Vaccination Rate in a Geriatric Inpatient Unit  - Jessamine Liu
• The Predictors of Adverse Discharge Outcomes in Older Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients, Stratified by the Edmonton Frailty Scale - Catherine Henry
• Does the G8 Frailty, CARG, or a combination score predict severe chemotherapy/immunotherapy toxicity in older South Australian cancer patients? - Jadsada Chongvathanakij
• The use of patient characteristics to predict outcomes for adults enrolled in a metropolitan rehabilitation in the home program. - Floyd Dias
• Utility of CT Brain Post Fall in Interim Care Patients - Jin E Tan
• Factors affecting trial of void outcomes in older adults undergoing hip fracture surgery - Laurel Chan
• Providing multi-disciplinary care at home – a virtual aged care assessment unit - Joshua Z H Chen
• Does a history of trauma or mental illness diagnosis predispose the development of behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) in dementia?   - Sze (Sally) SC Chan
• Predicting successful short stay admission in a geriatric population - Theresa Chion
• Beyond the Blues of Broken Ribs: Identifying resuscitation discussion issues for the hospitalised geriatric population - Kae-Duen KS Su
• The predictive ability of the Clinical Frailty Scale for prolonged length of stay and 12-month mortality in general medicine patients seen by a liaison geriatric medicine service. - Nur-E-Zannat Dr Fatema
• The prevalence of recognised cognitive impairment in older adults attending the diabetes clinic - Tessa O'Halloran
• Correlation between echocardiographic findings and cerebral vascular disease - Paul Lin
• Streamlining community dwelling very elderly patients presenting to hospital to receive specialised geriatric care might reduce inpatient length of stay – glimpse from preliminary data - Imran Dr Riaz
• Development of an Intermediate Care Service in aged residential care facilities with several workstreams in a provincial hospital in Aotearoa New Zealand - Bernd Kraus
• Geriatrician input into goals of care and advance care planning in residential aged care facilities - Dolly D Png
• Avoiding hospitalisation-everyone is a winner! - Peter Gonski
• Are we ready for the evolving epidemic? Journey to co-manage patients with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in a general geriatric unit - Champa Ranasinghe

The arts are pivotal to the cultural heritage of our oldest living civilization, the indigenous peoples of Australia and Torres Straight islands. Art, music, singing, dance and story- telling bring to life their cultural and spiritual lives to the present day, giving meaning, quality and contributing to health, including here the Maori peoples. Today’s societal benefits of the arts are being recognized, documented and developing evidence base, particularly in the aged, via many mechanisms, neurocognitive, psychological, nurturing creativity, fostering community engagement and quality of life. Varied forms of music, unique to individual likes and dislikes, exaggerating as we age, inform our emotions, joy and suffering, comfort and consolation. Celebration is never without music, marking life milestones, giving structure and is fundamental to human existence. Singing, particularly choral singing has been shown to improve mood, manage depression, improve cognition and promote social connectedness, especially for dementia sufferers and carers. Expression through our bodies in dance contributes to physical and emotional health. Therapeutic activities such as viewing and making art reduces isolation, improves cognition and enhances mood in people living with dementia. Our speakers will address aspects of the arts which contribute in our ageing society and will convince you of the health and well-being benefits.

• Creative and Cultural Participation Benefits Older Adults' Health and Wellbeing - Genevieve Dingle
• Choral Singing - Melissa Gill
• Visual Art - Debbie Brittain
• Dance Presentation - Paul Boyd

• Planning for the Aged Care Workforce of the Future- Implications of Stigma on Health Professionals’ Intentions to Work in Aged Care. - Asmita Manchha
• "Life is about movement –everything that is alive moves”: inpatient mobility and older patients' experience of barriers and enablers - Alison M Mudge
• An update on trends in the use of hospital beds by older people in Australia: data from 1993 to 2020 - Len Gray
• Bringing endoscopic evaluation of swallowing to adults in residential aged care homes in Australia. - Olga Birchall
• Investigating sex differences in risk and protective factors in the progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to dementia: a systematic review - Jissa Martin
• Development of a minimum clinical dataset for preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessment and optimisation using a modified Delphi technique - Margot Lodge

• Treating osteoporosis and dementia with anti-dementia medication acetylcholinesterase inhibitors may have therapeutic benefits on osteoporotic bone by attenuating osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption   - Charles Inderjeeth
• An Acute Cognition Unit provides effective treatment for clinically significant changed behaviours and psychological symptoms in hospitalised patients with dementia. - Frederick A Graham
• Factors associated with the decision for operative versus non-operative treatment and mortality rate in older patients with hip fracture, a multicenter study in Thailand - Thanyaporn Thanalertlap
• Associations of frailty and other modifiable risks with incident dementia in the US National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center database - David D Ward
• Diagnostic power of relative sit-to-stand muscle power, grip strength and gait speed for identifying a history of recurrent falls and fractures in older adults - Jesse Zanker
• Preliminary results of the Let’s Chat (Community Health Approaches To) Dementia: An implementation program for detection of cognitive impairment and dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities attending primary care - Eddy Strivens

• Care in the Community – a COVID-19 initiative to reduce hospital presentations among community-dwelling people - Tammy Ling
• Outpatient Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment following discharge from the Emergency Department is associated with reduced Emergency Department re-attendance in moderately frail patients. - Baldeep Badeshae
• Impact of inpatient dental review on antiresorptive prescription following minimal trauma hip fracture - Arrhchanah Balachandran
• Management of behaviours of concern and psychotropic deprescribing in the COVID-19 Supportive Care Unit - Nicola Hogan
• The prognostic validity of delirium severity as measured by Delirium Observation Screening Scale (DOS Scale) on adverse outcomes - Elyshia Gray
• Rates of Unrecognised Cognitive Impairment in Hospitalised Older Patients at Discharge - Arthur Chee

• The Pandemic And The Digital Divide in Older Adults.  - Xiang Loh
• Emergency Department Geriatric Assessment Team (ED-GAT): Proactive Model Of Care For Older Adults In A Tertiary Hospital Emergency Department - Nisha Antony
• Quality improvement initiatives in orthogeriatrics: Insights from the Eat Walk Engage program. - Maureen Runganga
• Is face to face still the best way to communicate? The challenges of using automated systems to feedback patient information to clinicians. - Christine Brown
• Growth and learning mindset more valuable than outcome in effecting change – learnings from developing a hospital Medical Emergency Team (MET) call simulation program. - Laurel Chan
• Embedded simulation to enhance interdisciplinary management of acute deterioration in an acute medical unit caring for older adults. - Lachlan C O'Sullivan
• A trip to trauma: from the perspective of a final year geriatric medicine trainee  - Sok Shin Yap
• Every cloud has a silver lining: The positive impacts of COVID-19 on aged care research  - Danielle Ní Chróinín
• The search for best practice physiotherapy in a gerontology private practice - Patricia K Maggs
• Expanding shared care perioperative services at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital – Neurosurgery – Geriatrics: A New Horizon - Lisa Redgrave
• Implementing a Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) Clinical Nurse Specialist Role in Wellington Regional Hospital - Eun-Sil Choi
• Bringing the LaTCH Memory Program to Geriatric Private Practice - Kelly Wright
• I am a Jedi. Many things I can do. - Lannie Ho
• Geriatrics in the Home – Emergency Department Clinical Nurse Pilot - Sally Johns

• Mate wareware (Dementia) in Māori –Aotearoa NZ and Australia - Oliver Menzies
• Heart to HART- Building a good life for older adults in the Torres Strait - Edward Strivens
• Success and Failures in Indigenous Aged Care - Kristen Jacklin