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Implementing Anti-Amyloid Therapies, Conversations with Clinical Leaders is a new webinar series — developed by the Gerontological Society of America in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association — that provides guidance to primary care providers and others for implementing recently approved therapies to delay the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has selected new editors to lead three of its peer-reviewed journal titles, effective January 1. They are Jason D. (Jace) Flatt, PhD, MPH, as the editor-in-chief of the Social Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences; Karen Kopera-Frye, PhD, FAGHE, FGSA, as the editor-in-chief of Gerontology & Geriatrics Education; and Joyce Siette, B Psych (Hons), PhD, as the editor-in-chief of the Medical Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has received a three-year grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health to establish the Geroscience Education and Training 2 (GET2) Network. 

To take maximum advantage of the added days, months, and years people enjoy because of modern health care and healthier habits, they need to achieve competency in several areas necessary for longer lives, states a new Gerontological Society of America report, “Health and Wealth in the Era of Longevity.”

The National Center to Reframe Aging — the leading organization for evidence-based communication strategies and tools to effectively frame aging issues — is partnering with the Maine Council on Aging (MCOA) to host a special cohort of the Leadership Exchange on Ageism (LEA), a program for leaders to enhance understanding of ageism and develop strategies to eliminate it.