Join us for an insightful presentation at AGS 2025 focusing on a critical issue: providing quality healthcare for homeless older adults.
The ‘What Matters’ Approach to Clinical Care of Homeless Older Adults
When: May 8, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Grand Hall K
Track: Networking
This presentation will introduce a “What Matters” approach, grounded in the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Healthcare (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility), to deliver meaningful healthcare to homeless older adults. We’ll prioritize basic survival needs—food, clothing, shelter, and access to care—before addressing other health priorities, using a simple hierarchy and workflow.
This Special Interest Group (SIG) presentation aims to provide a forum for discussing issues impacting homeless older adults and to help geriatrics healthcare professionals find and expand access to care for this population. We will also address the growing homeless epidemic by educating, promoting awareness, and assuring quality healthcare evidence and data to support homeless geriatrics care.
Co-Chairs: Diane Chau, MD & David Picella, PhD, NP, CPG
Refreshments will be provided.
Learn more about the “What Matters” approach and how we can better serve homeless older adults.
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