The American Geriatrics Society

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is an expert society established on June 11, 1942 for doctors rehearsing geriatric solution. Among the establishing doctors were Dr.Ignatz Leo Nascher, who instituted the expression "geriatrics," Dr. Malford W. Thewlis, who was named the primary official secretary of the Society, and Dr. Lucien Stark who was named the main AGS president.The Society has a primary associate explored diary, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. It’s different diaries incorporate the Annals of Long-term Care and Clinical Geriatrics. The Society likewise distributes the Geriatrics Review Syllabus (now in its seventh version). The Society has distributed clinical practice rules on tenacious agony, diabetes mellitus, and falls. Its pocket instrument, Geriatrics at Your Fingertips, has normal yearly offers of more than 15,000 copies. In 1999 the Society built up the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) to further propel maturing research, teach people in general and lawmakers about senior medicinal services, and urge the general population to advocate for quality senior consideration. The Association of Directors of Geriatrics Academic Programs (ADGAP), built up in 1990, turned into a supporting association of the Society in 2002. AGS now numbers somewhere in the range of 6,400 geriatrics medicinal services suppliers – including geriatricians, geriatrics attendant specialists and doctor associates - as individuals.Qualified individuals incorporated any doctor with an enthusiasm for geriatrics who had moved on from a perceived therapeutic school and was a part on favorable terms of a state medicinal society. In 1997, enrollment was opened to other expert individuals from the geriatrics interdisciplinary group. The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a not-revenue driven association of more than 6,400 wellbeing experts dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing, autonomy and personal satisfaction of all more established individuals. The Society gives authority to human services experts, arrangement producers and people in general by actualizing and pushing for projects in patient consideration, exploration, expert and government funded training, and open strategy. The AGS yearly experimental meeting has happened each year since 1946.The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a not-revenue driven association of about 6,000 wellbeing experts gave to enhancing the wellbeing, freedom and personal satisfaction of all more seasoned individuals. The Society gives administration to human services experts, approach producers and general society by executing and pushing for projects in patient consideration, examination, expert and government funded training, and open strategy

The following is the list of scholars from The American Geriatrics Society who contributed and/or serves as editors for one or more OMICS International journals and conferences

• Richard Kones