Florida Geriatrics Society

12/25/2025

From our families to yours, we wish you all a peaceful holiday season! ✨

12/04/2025

🚨 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗖𝗬 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 🚨
Everyone deserves to have their healthcare wishes respected, no matter what. That’s why Florida is considering Senate Bill 312: Patient Directed Medical Orders (PDMO) – a simple idea that’s a game-changer for people with serious illnesses.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗗𝗠𝗢?
PDMO is an official medical order (like a doctor’s order) that records exactly what treatments you do or do not want if you become seriously ill, so your choices are known and honored in any emergency or care setting.

It’s created with your doctor and travels with you. No matter where you are—whether in a hospital, nursing home, or at home with paramedics—providers can quickly see your wishes and follow them. This means:
• You get the care you want
• You avoid the treatments you don’t want
• Your family isn’t left guessing your wishes

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝘄?
Florida SB 312 would establish PDMO statewide, and it’s up for a hearing soon.

🗓 December 9
🕙 10:00 AM
🏛 Florida Senate Health Policy Committee – SB 312 Hearing
📍 The Capitol, Tallahassee

Now is the time to speak up. Everyone – patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals – can help make this happen.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼:
• Share this post to spread the word
• Show up on Dec 9 to the committee hearing to demonstrate your support
• Contact your Florida state legislators to tell them you support PDMO
Not sure who your legislators are? Find them here:
👉 Find Your Representative: https://www.flhouse.gov/FindYourRepresentative
👉 Find Your Senator: https://www.flsenate.gov/senators

𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱.
Show up or speak up on Dec 9! Together, we can help pass SB 312 so that seriously ill Floridians get to decide the care they receive when it matters most. Every voice counts.

11/27/2025

Wishing our members, colleagues, older adults, their families, and all a warm and restful Thanksgiving. 🦃🍂

11/11/2025

The Florida Geriatrics Society proudly honors our nation’s Veterans today and every day. 🇺🇸

To those who have served—and their families—thank you for your courage, sacrifice, and continued contributions to our communities.

The FGS is committed to advancing high-quality, compassionate geriatric care for older adults and aging Veterans in Florida.

11/07/2025

✨Discounted early bird registration for the 2026 Florida Geriatrics Society's Annual Symposium is now LIVE!✨

🗓️ Join us June 13-14 2026, at the Sheraton Clearwater Beach - Sand Key Resort and learn more about advancing the art & science of geriatric healthcare in Florida.

🏝️In addition to our impactful speaker and symposium roster, we welcome all registered attendees, speakers, and guests to attend a special networking reception on Saturday, June 13 - join us for an evening of fun, food, drinks, and camaraderie with geriatric healthcare professionals from around the state!

🌟CURRENT MEMBERS: to access special discounted pricing, please log into your account prior to registration.

☀️For sponsorship opportunities, email exec@floridageriatricssociety.org for more information.

 our annual networking reception. We encouraged you to join us for an evening of family fun and camaraderie.           

10/18/2025

The Florida Geriatrics Society was created by David T. Lowenthal, MD, on October 17, 1989, at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Thank you to all of our past and present members for making the last 36 years so impactful and here's to many more! 🎉

10/09/2025

October 9th is National Ageism Awareness Day. Besides the amazing resources from the American Society on Aging (asaging.org), the National Center to Reframe Aging (reframingaging.org), and The American Geriatrics Society we also want to recognize Florida's very own Department of Elder Affairs and Florida Council on Aging, along with USF's Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging (FPEC) located within the USF School of Aging Studies. The FGS is proud to help bring awareness and solutions to ageism in Florida through collaboration and education.

07/01/2025

🏅 🩺 Special shoutout to the Florida Geriatrics Society's first annual People's Choice winner Katherine Bui, DO, Psychiatry Resident Physician, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences for her abstract titled, "Psychiatrists Advocate for Delirium over Dementia: Rare Case of Parathyroid Adenoma Induced-Delirium."

Pictured with co-author, and FGS Member, Peggy E. Chatham, MD, MHSA Diplomate, ABPN, Geriatrics Attending Inpatient Psychiatrist, James A Haley VA Hospital.

07/01/2025

🏆 🩺 Congratulations to the 2025 Dr. David T. Lowenthal Poster Session Founder’s Award winner, Navin Singh MS2, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, for his abstract titled "'Forgotten, But Not Gone' A Case of Hospice Graduation," pictured here with co-author and FGS member, Nupur Kroger, MD, PGY-5, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine.

Each year in honor of our Founder, the Florida Geriatrics Society presents the Dr. David T. Lowenthal Founder’s Poster Session Award in Geriatrics to the author whose abstract has been judged to best exemplify excellence within a topic area pertinent to geriatric care. From among all abstract submissions, the FGS Lowenthal Award and Poster Session Committee also invites a small number of authors to present their research at the annual meeting as an oral presentation.

Thank you to all of our participants and a special recognition to our 2025 meeting oral presenters:

🔷 Katherine Bui, DO, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine
🔷 Josué Cabán Álvarez, MD, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine
🔷 Navin Singh, MS2, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine
🔷 Elisabeth Smith, MD, Florida State University College of Medicine

Our deepest gratitude to our judges and Education Committee Lowenthal Poster Session Coordinators Dennis Mayeaux, MD and Jonathan Stewart, MD, DLFAPA, AGSF.

Stay tuned for more information on submissions for the 2026 FGS Annual Meeting!

06/08/2025

☀️ 📅 We are just TWO WEEKS away from the Florida Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting and 35th Anniversary Celebration in Clearwater Beach on June 21-22nd! Will you be joining us? Meeting registration is available online. Exhibiting and non-exhibiting partnership opportunities are also available.

Visit https://bit.ly/43uJttH or email our Executive Director at Exec@floridageriatricssociety.org for more information.

Some topics being covered by our expert speakers include:
- Management of Dysphagia: Updates on Guidelines and Management
- End Of Life Capacity Considering Values and Biases
- Oncology: Use of Geriatric Surgery Verification Program
- Home-Bound Emerging Models of Care
- Pharmacogenomics+ to Help Manage Polypharmacy
- Department of Elder Affairs: Initiatives and Updates
- Medication Stewardship
Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: 4Ms Care Description Level 1
- Advance Planning/Elder Law
and MORE!

Florida Geriatrics Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of life and advancing the health care of older adults through education, research, networking, and improving public awareness of the interdisciplinary healthcare professionals caring for older adults living in Florida. Become an FGS Member: https://lnkd.in/eRSPDw5y

05/21/2025

📅The countdown is on for the 2025 Florida Geriatrics Society's Annual Meeting and 35th Anniversary Celebration! Join us June 21-22 in beautiful Clearwater Beach, Florida for an unforgettable weekend connecting with your fellow geriatric healthcare providers.

Time is running out - register today: https://bit.ly/43uJttH or email our Executive Director at Exec@floridageriatricssociety.org for more information.

Some topic areas being covered by our expert speakers include:
- Management of Dysphagia: Updates on Guidelines and Management
- EOL Capacity -Values and Biases
- Oncology: Use of Geriatric Surgery Verification Program
- Home-Bound Emerging Models of Care
- Pharmacogenomic Testing
- Geriatrics Initiatives and Updates
- Polypharmacy
- Advance Planning/Elder Law and MORE!

10/04/2024

Implementation of delirium screening in the emergency department: A qualitative study with early adopters. https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.19188