Oakstone GRS12 Audio Companion 2025

New Release! On-the-Go: Advancing Geriatric Medicine

The GRS12 Audio Companion is your trusted resource for advancing knowledge and confidence in geriatric medicine. Designed for primary care providers who work with older adults, this program delivers practical how-to tips, preferred treatment strategies, and valuable GRS12 pearls that will enhance your clinical decision-making and help you prep for board exams.

Hear directly from American Geriatrics Society GRS12 chapter authors as they deliver trusted, evidence-based perspectives across nine key areas:

Foundations in Aging
Care Systems
Approach to the Patient
What Matters
Mind
Mobility
Medication
Multicomplexity – Geriatric Syndromes
Multicomplexity – Diseases and Disorders

Date of Original Release: October 1, 2025
Estimated Time to Complete: 31.5 hours

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:

Describe the general principles of aging and the biomedical and psychosocial issues of aging
Recognize and apply the various dimensions of diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and socioeconomic status, as they relate to older adults
Discuss legal, ethical, and advance care planning issues related to geriatric medicine
Appraise the financing of health care for older adults
Identify the basic principles of geriatric medicine, including assessment, prognostication, pharmacotherapy, prevention, exercise, palliative care, rehabilitation, and sensory deficits
Use state-of-the-art approaches or models of care for geriatric care while providing care in hospitals, office practices, nursing homes, home-care settings, telehealth platforms, and others
Diagnose and manage geriatric syndromes, including dementia, delirium, urinary incontinence, malnutrition, osteoporosis, falls, pressure injuries, sleep disorders, pain, dysphagia, and dizziness
Apply relevant information from other fields, such as cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, psychiatry, dermatology, dentistry, and gynecology, to the care of older patients
Employ quality indicators to assess and improve the care of older adults
Interpret evidence-based data to increase the effectiveness of teaching geriatrics to all health professionals
Target Audience

This course is intended for primary care providers who work with older adults.

+ Topics:

Foundations in Aging

Historical Perspectives of Geriatric Medicine – Anagha B. Kumar, BA

Health Equity in Aging – Chanel F. Whittaker, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP

Demography – Kimson E. Johnson, PhD, MA, MSW

Biology –Robert J. Pignolo, MD, PhD

Psychology of Aging – Julie Blaskewicz Boron, PhD

Ethics and Law – Elizabeth K. Vig, MD, MPH, FACP

Financing, Coverage, and Costs of Health Care – Kathleen T. Unroe, MD, MHA, MS, AGSF

Care Systems

Home-Based Medical Care – Mattan Schuchman, MD, FACP

Outpatient Care Systems – Michael R. Wasserman, MD, CMD

Community-Based Care – Mary Bonnet, MD

Telehealth – Andrea Wershof Schwartz, MD, MPH, AGSF

Hospital Care – Liron Sinvani, MD, AGSF, FHM

Transitions of Care – Stephanie Nothelle, MD

Rehabilitation – Jason R. Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD

Nursing Home Care – Lauren J. Gleason, MD, MPH, AGSF

Approach to the Patient

Healthy Aging – Susan M. Friedman, MD, MPH, AGSF, FACLM

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex+ Health – Carl Burton, MD

Screening and Prevention – Lindsey Yourman, MD

Physical Activity – Allyson R. Armstrong, PT, DPT

Sexual Health – Lindsay A. Wilson, MD, MPH, MEd, AGSF

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment – Sonja Rosen, MD, FACP, AGSF

Prognostication – Eric Widera, MD

Loneliness and Social Isolation – Thomas K.M. Cudjoe, MD, MPH, MA

Mistreatment – Tony Rosen, MD, MPH

Perioperative Care – Sarah A. Wingfield, MD, AGSF

Complementary and Integrative Medicine – Meena Makhijani, DO, ABIHM, ABOIM, CAP

Pain Management – Gillian Love, MD

Substance Use and Compulsive Disorders – Amy Swift, MD

What Matters

Advance Care Planning for What Matters Most – Candace J. Kim, MD

Caregiving – Sarah H. Kagan, PhD, RN, GCNS-BC, AOCN®, FAAN, FGSA

Palliative Care – Danielle J. Doberman, MD, MPH, HMDC

Mind

Dementia – Jarrod A. Carrol, MD

Behaviors in Dementia – Melinda S. Lantz, MD

Delirium – Melissa L.P. Mattison, MD

Sleep Issues – Cathy A. Alessi, MD, AGSF

Depression and Other Mood Disorders – Gary J. Kennedy, MD

Anxiety Disorders – Allison Glasgow, MD

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders – Julia Salinas, MD

Personality and Somatic Symptom Disorders – Kecia-Ann M. Blissett, DO

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities – Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP

Mobility

Gait Impairment – Everett Hills, MD, MS, FAAPMR

Falls – Natalie A. Sanders, DO

Musculoskeletal Pain – Cassandra L. Wehling, MD

Disorders of the Foot – Latricia Allen-Soto, DPM, MPH, FACPM, CWS

Medication

Pharmacotherapy – Judith L. Beizer, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, AGSF

Multicomplexity – Geriatric Syndromes

Frailty – Michelle Martinchek, MD, MPH

Dizziness – Iva Neupane, MD

Syncope – J. William Schleifer, MD, FACC

Vision Loss and Other Eye Conditions – Andrew G. Lee, MD

Hearing Loss – Jessie Jenkins, MD

Nutrition and Weight – Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH

Dentistry and Oral Health – Kevin T. Hendler, DDS, FASGD, DABSCD

Swallowing and Feeding – Nicole Rogus-Pulia, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow

Pressure Injuries and Wound Care – Jeffrey M. Levine, MD, AGSF

Urinary Incontinence – Theodore M. Johnson II, MD, MPH, AGSF

Osteoporosis – Serena P. Wong, DO

Multimorbidity – Matthew K. McNabney, MD

Multicomplexity – Diseases and Disorders

Neurology – Elizabeth L. Hartman, MD

Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease – Subin Mathew, MBBS, MD

Cardiovascular Disease – David L. Rebedew, MD, FAAFP, DABOM, CMD

Hypertension – Jeff D. Williamson, MD, MHS

Heart Failure – Vijay Jaligam, MD, FACC

Pulmonology – Leah Witt, MD

Gastroenterology – Vasantham Annadurai, MD

Nephrology – Stephanie Shieh, MD

Gynecology – Candace Parker-Autry, MD

Prostate Disease and Cancer – Lisa J. Granville, MD, AGSF, FACP

Rheumatology – Anupama Gangavati, MD, AGSF

Dermatology – Gisselle C. Pichardo, DO

Infectious Diseases – Morgan J. Katz, MD, MHS

Endocrinology – Jennifer S. Mammen, MD, PhD

Diabetes Mellitus – Pei Chen, MD

Hematology – Thomas M. Reske, MD, PhD, CMD, FACP, AGSF

Oncology and Hematologic Malignancies – Sonia L. Sánchez Mendoza, MD