Wednesday, 24th June Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2026

• Endocrinology Breakfast Session - Ryan Jalleh

• Minimally Invasive and Conservative Treatment Options for Urinary Incontinence in Frail Older Women  - Samantha Pillay

• Trauma Older Persons’ Service: meeting the challenge of low falls. - Kate Gregorevic

• John Campbell Memorial Address - Daniel Davis

• Translating trial criteria to clinical practice: eligibility for lecanemab in an Australian Cognition Dementia and Memory Service (CDAMS) clinic cohort. - Yi May Cheah
• Effectiveness of specialised behavioural management units for older patients with severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Simon K F Luk
• Understanding the connection between frailty and dementia in older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Peoples – the Let’s CHAT Dementia study - Caitriona J Bennett
• Anticholinergic Exposure Trajectories and Cognitive Change in Older Adults with Urinary Urgency: A Longitudinal Cohort Study  - Waafiqa Alam
• Utility of plasma nfl and p-tau217 in an Australian memory clinic - Jia Zheng
• Enhancing written information provision through consumer involvement and artificial intelligence in a cognitive clinic - Nik Partsanis

• Frailty is associated with earlier dementia onset: Evidence from the Rush Memory and Aging Project - Ruth Eleanor Hubbard
• Delirium predicts nursing home admission in individuals with and without dementia: A matched cohort study in the UK Biobank - Ruth Eleanor Hubbard
• Equity of uptake of COVID-19, pneumococcal, zoster and influenza vaccinations in the older population: A national population-based analysis - Craig Hansen
• Consideration of frailty in hospital-based falls prevention trials within a Cochrane systematic review - Veethika Nayak
• Hearing Aids to Support Cognitive Function of Older Adults at Risk of Dementia: the HearCog Trial Results - Leon Flicker
• Multi-outcome prognostic modelling for older adults after trauma: development and validation of the Older Trauma Outcome Predictor (OTOP) model. - Mayura Iddagoda

• Care for the elderly with rib fractures: the role of the STUMBL score as a tool for predictors of adverse outcomes in patients aged ≥ 65 who have sustained rib fractures - Allan Bui
• Experiences of research participation for persons living with dementia with Lewy bodies and their study partners  - Anni South
• Neuroimaging for Alzheimer’s Disease: Promise or Overstated Precision? - Calum Chong
• Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy and bone health of trans- and gender-diverse adults and older adults: a systematic review - Jesse Minshall
• Educational needs of junior doctors caring for hospitalised older adults - Minna F Yumol
• Opportunities for care: The impact of routine post discharge screening on aged care residents discharging from a large metropolitan Melbourne hospital - Michelle Chee

• Dementia prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand: the IDEA project - Jackie Broadbent
• Development of the PHARMA-Care National Quality Framework for monitoring quality use of medicines in residential aged care homes - Janet K Sluggett
• National trends in rehabilitation utilisation among people with and without dementia after hip fracture or stroke (2014–2019) - Miia Rahja
• Disease-Related & Age-Related Frailty: A Machine Learning Approach to Characterising Frailty By Aetiology - Ruth Eleanor Hubbard
• Measuring frailty at scale: development and validation of an electronic frailty index for Queensland Health hospitals - Ruth Eleanor Hubbard
• Temporalis muscle thickness and frailty are associated with falls risk in people with mild cognitive impairment/subjective cognitive concerns - Kate Sturzaker

• Co-HIVE: Digital Solutions Transforming Specialist Care for Older Adults living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF) - Zarrin Allam
• Implementing a GEDI Model in a Tertiary Emergency Department: Early Experience from a New Service - Sharanya Athithan
• Implementing an Inpatient Consult Geriatric Service: Insights from a Year of PDSA‑Driven Refinement - Sharanya Athithan
• The OPTIMAL trial: our experience with implementing a risk-stratified intervention to support older adults transitioning from hospital to residential aged care for the first time - Ishita Batta
• The Sutherland Hospital Emergency Department & Geriatric Flying Squad Pathway - Sandhya Chand
• Osteoporosis management following policy change mandating zoledronic acid administration on day of discharge - Rosemary RC Chen
• Retrospective review of patients with multiple 'Code Grey' response calls - Thanawan Chirakijja
• Hospital Presentations after Home-Based Assessment and Management of Older People by Emergency Hospital In The Home. - Lucinda Clay
• Breaking bones: patterns of anti-resorptive prescribing in patients post neck of femur fracture - Lauren Corre
• From reporting to care planning: Embedding Quality Indicator data into residential aged care workflows using SMART on FHIR - Ronald Dendere
• Should Whole Body Vibration be Used for Falls Prevention in Older People? - Suzanne M Dyer
• Planning for the assessment needs for people with dementia in Australia – The use of linked datasets - Leon Flicker
• Parkmoves: an interdisciplinary group improves patient and hospital outcomes in subacute aged care  - Liora Frydman
• Safety in focus: Building a statewide hospital framework for dementia‑related aggression - Frederick Graham
• Review of Surgical Outcomes of General Surgery Patients that Attended a Pre-Operative Geriatric Clinic. - Afsana AS Habib
• Impact of FOCUS (Frail/Older adult care Colorectal and Upper GI Service) on Upper GI/Colorectal unit in improving outcomes. - Afsana Dr Habib
• Prevalence of Polypharmacy and Effective Deprescribing by Geriatric Assessment Team - Sarah Healey
• Preliminary Usability and Acceptability of a Digital Frailty Prevention Website for Older Adults: A Qualitative Evaluation Using the Kirkpatrick Model - Ruth Eleanor Hubbard
• Recruitment for a randomised type 1 comparative effectiveness-implementation to reduce frailty in mildly frail older adults in Australia: preliminary insights - Ruth Eleanor Hubbard
• A Retrospective Study of the use of the Emergency Department Fractured Neck of Femur Pathway in a major metropolitan hospital. - Riana John
• Incorporating design considerations into public games in an “intergenerational playground” for later-life adults - Thinn Thinn Khine
• Considerations in designing mobile stroke computed tomography (CT) imaging for ageing population - Thinn Thinn Khine
• Junior Medical Staff Psychotropic Medicine Prescribing Practices For Patients With Cognitive Impairments: a survey study   - Sabrina Kohler
• Barriers to Anti-Resorptive Therapy Initiation Following Neck of Femur (NOF) Fracture: An Internal Audit at Werribee Mercy Hospital - Bao Yen Le
• Enhancing Communication Between Medical Staff and Families in a Subacute Geriatric Unit - Jenny Lee
• Hypertensive urgency in elderly inpatients at Concord Hospital: a retrospective cohort study - Ho Hin HL Leung
• Improving inpatient antiresorptive medication administration in neck of femur fracture patients using high-dose oral colecalciferol: a rural tertiary hospital study - Jasmine Li
• Prevalence and Characterisation of Mild Behavioural Impairment (MBI) in an Asian Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Cohort - Jing Wei Lim
• Acute Admission Avoidance via Rapid Geriatric Intervention and Timely Discharge in a Short Stay Unit - Jewel Llego
• Prognostic Value of Diastolic Dysfunction in Adults Undergoing Vascular Surgery: Implications for the Risk of Myocardial Injury after Noncardiac Surgery (MINS) - Andrea Lori
• Gender differences in knowledge, self-efficacy beliefs, and information preferences for mild cognitive impairment and dementia among adults aged 40 and above: a mixed methods study. - Jissa Martin
• Heart Failure Management in Frail Patients; A Prospective, Multicentre, Observational Cohort Study - Brenton McCormack
• Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives of the Role of Pharmacists in Residential Aged Care Homes. - Tiernan McDonough
• Pharmacist-led Comprehensive Geriatric Medication Review in a Geriatric in the Home (GITH) Program - Thomas Mitchell
• Understanding patient and clinician perspectives in the HITH4Hips trial: a qualitative study - Jananee Myooran
• What factors influence the implementation of a fall prevention program? A qualitative study with multi-level and cross-disciplinary perspectives. - Veethika Nayak
• Sleepless in a Geriatric Rehabilitation Unit: A Hidden Burden in Older Inpatients - Olivia B Ogilvy Dunstan
• Improved emergency department (ED) presentations, unplanned hospitalisations and polypharmacy outcomes from a large scale, innovative hybrid telehealth model of shared GP/geriatrician care. - Anil Paramadhathil
• Audit of fall-related trauma care provision in patients >65 years in a tertiary hospital emergency department. - Kascia L Pavisich
• Impact of Sleep Disturbance and Early Morning OFF Symptoms on Health-Related Quality of Life in Advanced Parkinson’s Disease - Theresa Phan
• Feasibility and effectiveness of multidisciplinary falls prevention discussions in a geriatric rehabilitation ward. - Piyush Pius
• Osteoporosis treatment in Nonagenarians - Yan Qin
• General Surgery Geriatric Service (GSGS), Collaboration at its Best: Staff Feedback on a 3 month Pilot of a proactive shared care model - Lisa Redgrave
• Comparison of weight-based versus fixed-dose Beriplex (4F-PCC) for emergency anticoagulation reversal in older adults admitted to an acute surgical unit.  - Rochelle Sheppard
• Prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome in Parkinson’s Disease + Pramipexole use in an Outpatient Clinic Setting - Dilan Siriwardena
• Introduction of Clinical Frailty Screening and establishment of an Acute Frailty Team in an Emergency Department.   - Alisha M Spiteri
• FLASH vs OMS: A Validation Study    - Kim Tran
• Supporting older trauma patients at discharge: A feasibility pilot of a patient navigator service - Jill Williams
• Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease: Additional Insights from the TRAILBLAZER‐ALZ 2 Long-Term Extension - Paul Yates
• Frailty, temporalis muscle thickness and 5-year clinical outcomes in a memory clinic cohort - Paul Yates
• Dysphagia risk in older adults with head and neck cancer: the role of frailty and sarcopenia - Paul Yates
• Medium-term outcomes of COVID-19 infection in aged care facilities – a Residential In-Reach perspective - Renee Zeng
• Innovative Urgent Health Access for Residents of Aged Care Facilities - Jade Lee
• Evaluating structured post-fall huddles as a quality improvement initiative in a Subacute Care Unit - Jessica Parkin

Pre-registration is required. 

• Derek Prinsley Memorial Address - Using big data to monitor and improve care quality for older people within and across care settings- a desirable and technically feasible innovation - Maria Inacio
• Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Registry - Stephanie Ward

• AI Introduction and Individual Use - Johan Verjans
• Breaking Bad(ly): Predictive AI in hip fracture care - Joanne Tan
• Generative AI Use Cases - Automating Registries and Data Collection - Weng Onn Chan