Barriers to GeroScience in Clinical Community

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Author(s): Taffet George

Primary Institution: Houston Methodist Hospital

Geriatricians are skeptical about the potential of GeroScience to improve patient care.

Geriatricians need to embrace GeroScience concepts to enhance their practice and patient outcomes.

Geriatricians often disassociate blood results from the patient in front of them.
Studies that only show serum studies are undervalued by geriatricians.
Geriatricians frequently think 'the horse is out of the barn' for their patients.

Geriatricians are not using new science about aging that could help their patients because they don't see how it applies to them.

Geriatricians may undervalue studies that do not show direct clinical relevance.

Geriatricians often lack exposure to geroscience and find it hard to apply to their practices.

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