Internal MedicineVideo course2025
Harvard Mass General Brigham Perioperative Care of the Older Adult 2025 — age-friendly surgery in practice
Older adults now make up a large share of surgical patients, and their risks — delirium, frailty, polypharmacy, lost function — are different. Harvard Mass General Brigham Perioperative Care of the Older Adult 2025, recorded 22–23 May 2025 and supplied as videos with PDFs, follows the geriatric “4Ms” through the surgical journey with Zara Cooper, Rachelle Bernacki, Ariela Orkaby and colleagues, mixing lectures with case-based workshops on dementia, caregivers, serious-illness conversations, prehab, medications and pain.
- 20sessions
- 5case workshops
- 2course days
- May 2025recorded
What you’ll be able to do
- Prevent and manage postoperative delirium in patients with dementia
- Assess frailty and use prehabilitation and falls prevention
- Hold goals-of-care and serious-illness conversations before surgery
- Deprescribe and manage polypharmacy around surgery
- Plan anaesthesia and pain control for older patients
Inside the course
Harvard Perioperative Care of the Older Adult 2025, day one
An age-friendly keynote, delirium, what matters most, frailty, mobility and rehab, care transitions and payment models, with workshops on dementia, caregivers and serious-illness conversations.
Day two: multicomplexity
Perioperative evaluation, prehabilitation, polypharmacy and deprescribing, anaesthesia and pain management, with case workshops and a panel on implementing geriatric surgery programmes.
Built for
- Geriatricians and hospitalistsPerioperative co-management of older patients.
- Surgeons and anaesthesiologistsAge-friendly practice.
- Psychiatrists, nurses, PAs and pharmacistsDelirium, medication and team care.
Faculty & programme
Day 1 — May 22, 2025 10 videos
- Various — Day 1 Full Video with Workshops
- Zara Cooper — Keynote: Surgery in Older Adults: An Age-Friendly Approach
- Sevdenur Cizginer — Mentation: Preventing & Addressing Delirium in Surgical Patients
- Sharon Levine, Deborah Lee — Case-based Workshop: Delirium and Dementia in Surgical Cases
- Elizabeth Lilley — What Matters Most: Addressing Goals and Priorities for Surgical Patients
- Ariela Orkaby — Frailty in Older Surgical Patients
- Tamryn Gray, Zara Cooper — Case-based Workshop: Supporting Caregivers and Surrogates Before, During and After Surgery
- Julia Loewenthal, Nancy Latham — Rehab, Prehab and Falls: Optimizing Mobility throughout the Surgical Continuum
- Esteban Franco Garcia — Multicomplexity: Considering Transitions of Care and Payment Models for Geriatric Surgery Patients
- Rachelle Bernacki, Elizabeth Lilley — Case-based Workshop: Serious Illness Conversations: A Guide for Communication about Goals of Care
Day 2 — May 23, 2025 10 videos
- Various — Day 2 Full Video with Workshops
- Rachelle Bernacki — Introduction to Day 2: Navigating Multicomplexity in Older Surgical Patients
- Rachelle Bernacki, Christy Cauley — Peri-operative Evaluation of Geriatric Surgery Patients
- Christy Cauley, Esteban Franco Garcia — Case-based Workshop: Pre-operative Evaluation and Pre-habilitation
- Laura Frain — Medications: Polypharmacy and Deprescribing for Surgical Patients
- Andrea Wershof Schwartz, Lynne O’Mara — Case-based Workshop: Medications: Geriatric Surgical Cases
- Matthew Allen — Anesthesia and Pain Management in Older Surgical Patients
- Matthew Allen, Alexander B. Stone — Case-based Workshop: Surgical Pain Management for Older Adults
- Amy Bulger, Lynne O’Mara, Houman Javedan, Nicole Genovese, Masaya Higuchi — Panel Discussion: Implementing Geriatric Surgery Care Models
- Andrea Schwartz, Julia Loewenthal — Course Wrap-Up
Before you buy
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Videos + PDF |
|---|---|
| Contents | 20 videos incl. full-day recordings |
| Recorded | 22–23 May 2025 |
| Publisher | Mass General Brigham |
| Department | Internal Medicine |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |


