Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging

Susan Friedman, MD, MPH, has been a practicing geriatrician for over 30 years, and has spent more than a decade focusing on fostering healthy aging, incorporating geriatrics and lifestyle medicine into her clinical work, teaching, program development, research, and advocacy. She obtained her undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Northwestern University, and completed a General Internal Medicine residency and Geriatrics fellowship in the Johns Hopkins University system, based at Hopkins Bayview Hospital. She was on faculty at Johns Hopkins for 5 years before moving to the University of Rochester in 2000.Dr. Friedman is Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, in the Division of Geriatrics. She is the medical director of the university’s lifestyle medicine program based at Highland Hospital. She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited more than 3000 times, and was the lead author of the American Geriatrics Society’s White Paper on Healthy Aging.

• Section 1: General Principles1.The Rationale for Lifestyle Medicine in Geriatrics2. Promoting Healthy Aging: A Lifecycle Approach3.The Reality of Aging4.Confronting Ageism with Language and Lifestyle Medicine5. Climate Change, Lifestyle Medicine and Older Adults6.Lifestyle Medicine in a Geriatrics Primary Care PracticeSection 2: Lifestyle Medicine pillars as applied to older adults7. Why Exercise? Sedentarism, Physical Activity, and Exercise Among Older Adults8. Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations Among Older Adults9. Nutrition Care for the Older Adult10.Malnutrition in Older Adults – a Lifestyle Medicine Approach11.Sleep and Older Adults12.Social Connection – An Essential Lifestyle Pillar for Older Adults13. Stress and Its Impact on Older Adults14.Toxins and Older AdultsSection 3: Target issues15.Sarcopenia16. Unlocking the Mind: Navigating the Landscape of Dementia and Elevating Brain Health in Later Life17.Depression18. Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach19.Resilience20. Palliative Care in Older Adults: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach21. Polypharmacy and Deprescribing22.Caregiver Health23.Reducing Fall Risk with Lifestyle Modifications24. Obesity in Older Adults- Lifestyle Medicine Perspective25. Osteoporosis and Bone Health26. A Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Constipation