Medical Director, Senior Health, UConn Health. Born in Ireland. I enjoy time with family, and playing tennis and golf. Interested in promoting "Healthy Aging".
West Hartford, CT
Joined April 2017
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#uconnhealrh opens Geriatrics and Healthy Aging: geriatrics,
geriatrics psychiatry and geriatrics focused neurology, podiatry, audiology, pulmonology, endocrinology, urology, vascular surgery and palliative care all in one space. nbcconnecticut.com/news/loca…
Move for UConn Center on Aging Creates a Program for Coordinated Multidisciplinary Care of Older Adults – A First for the Region. today.uconn.edu/2023/10/move…
Geroscience is a worthwhile endeavor which holds lots of promise for improving the lives of older adults in the future. In the meantime we need to work with the tools we have now to promote Healthy Aging. @AmerGeriatrics @HealthInAging ctpublic.org/show/where-we-l…
Medicare's annual wellness visit: 10 years of opportunities gained and lost - Coll - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - Wiley Online Library. It’s time for the AWV to meet its potential. Geriatrics can make it happen agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Nurses, physicians, pharmacists, dentists, students, residents, fellows, clinicians, educators, researchers, policy wonks, AGS staff and lots more. #AGS21 is wonderful.
The Fellows-in-Training session at this years AGS conference #AGS21 was inspiring. Also wonderful poster presentations from fellows. Check them out. The future of geriatrics is in good hands.
Patrick P Coll retweeted
Two of my #geriatrics superheroes were honored with the Jahnigen award at the #AGS21 Awards ceremony -- John Murphy (our 2020 awardee,bit.ly/3w90ac1) and @hfernandez01 (our 2021 awardee, bit.ly/3od7SPg). #AGS21 #thisisgeriatrics #geriatrics
Wow. The audio posters at this years AGS #AGS21 meeting are awesome. I am not sure that this format for presenting posters would have happened if the meeting was occurring as usual. Need to use this going forward.
Patrick P Coll retweeted
"At 80 years old, I still wake up and go to work every day. I’m a #geriatrician — and it’s a job that I’ve held for the past 55 years. I happen to be among the lucky few who love the work they do." cnb.cx/318g49D #OldPeopleAreCool #OPAC @linkedsenior #gerotwitter
Great choice.
I’m with Joe.
The @AmerGeriatrics announced that @JOuslander - a leading figure in geriatrics with decades of experience helming organizations like the AGS —will succeed Dr. Applegate as editor-in-chief @AGSJournal
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aamc.org/system/files/2020-0… This report highlights the impact of an aging US population on a projected shortage of physicians. Geriatrics training is not addressed!! The AAMC needs to explicitly state the importance of geriatrics in meeting the future healthcare needs of the US.
cms.gov/files/document/nursi…. This finally makes sense. I only wish that CMS had come out with the “Phase 1” requirements at the beginning of March. Each state DPH should use this to develop similar requirements for assisted living.
Patrick P Coll retweeted
‘Protecting older people from #COVID19 must not come at the expense of their health and wellbeing’, warns the British Geriatrics Society @gerisoc @EuGMSSociety @roinnslainte bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/‘protecting-older-people-from-covid-19-must-not-come-at-the-expense-of-their-health
Covid-19: Lives Lost | The Irish Times irishtimes.com/covid-19-live…
Not just statistics. Real people, real lives. We could have done more to protect them. We should be doing more now to protect others just like them.
Uncounted, unseen - Many covid deaths in care homes are unrecorded | Europe | The Economist. Though “care homes” in Europe are generally more home like than nursing homes in the US, the impact of Covid is very similar. Catastrophic and under reported. economist.com/europe/2020/05…
Hopefully there will eventually be a federal enquiry that will address this issue and other systemic issues that resulted in the Codvid pandemic being more lethal than it should have been.
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It’s also worth noting, that at least in the Northeast many of these courageous frontline staff in LTC are immigrants. They are amazing.
Our staff in our NH's are the hardest working and most courageous staff in healthcare in the pandemic. Nursing home staffs bear witness to staggering death tolls whyy.org/articles/its-a-prof…