Bookmarking Osteoporosis

Photos courtesy of Maureen Beck, DNP

May is osteoporosis awareness month. To commemorate this month, Maureen Beck, DNP, co-director of the Center for Healthy Aging (CHA) started an initiative to educate patients and medical students on osteoporosis. Beck designed a bookmark that the team distributes to patients seen at CHA and to MS3 students rotating through internal medicine clerkships.

Osteoporosis can be deadly when an older adult sustains a hip fracture. The goal is to increase screening and treatment through education both in our patient community and medical learners.

The Center for Health Aging houses the Geriatric Osteoporosis clinic, where patients older than 50 years of age with multiple chronic diseases, including dementia, are referred to receive bone health care. Nahid Rianon, MD, founder of the Geriatric Osteoporosis Clinic, and Nuzha Amjad, MD, are physicians who see older patients with bone loss, osteoporosis, and fragility fractures.

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