AGS Sets Sights on Better Care, More Responsive Policies for 'Unbefriended' Older Adults (IMAGE)

American Geriatrics Society

AGS Sets Sights on Better Care, More Responsive Policies for 'Unbefriended' Older Adults

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Experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today unveiled new guidance on care and decision-making for a unique and growing group of older adults: the "unbefriended." Proposed clinical practice and public policy changes would support some of society's most vulnerable individuals while also helping protect more of us from becoming unbefriended as we age.

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