Susan Friedman, MD, MPH, has been a practicing geriatrician for over 30 years, and has spent more than a decade focusing on fostering healthy aging, incorporating geriatrics and lifestyle medicine into her clinical work, teaching, program development, research, and advocacy. She obtained her undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Northwestern University, and completed a General Internal Medicine residency and Geriatrics fellowship in the Johns Hopkins University system, based at Hopkins Bayview Hospital. She was on faculty at Johns Hopkins for 5 years before moving to the University of Rochester in 2000.

Dr. Friedman is Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, in the Division of Geriatrics. She is the medical director of the university's lifestyle medicine program based at Highland Hospital. She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited more than 3000 times, and was the lead author of the American Geriatrics Society's White Paper on Healthy Aging.

Section 1: General Principles

[...] Rationale for Lifestyle Medicine in Geriatrics

2. Promoting Healthy Aging: A Lifecycle Approach

[...] Reality of Aging

4.Confronting Ageism with Language and Lifestyle Medicine

5. Climate Change, Lifestyle Medicine and Older Adults

6.Lifestyle Medicine in a Geriatrics Primary Care Practice

Section 2: Lifestyle Medicine pillars as applied to older adults

7. Why Exercise? Sedentarism, Physical Activity, and Exercise Among Older Adults

8. Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations Among Older Adults

9. Nutrition Care for the Older Adult

10.Malnutrition in Older Adults - a Lifestyle Medicine Approach

[...] and Older Adults

12.Social Connection - An Essential Lifestyle Pillar for Older Adults

13. Stress and Its Impact on Older Adults

14.Toxins and Older Adults

Section 3: Target issues

15.Sarcopenia

16. Unlocking the Mind: Navigating the Landscape of Dementia and Elevating Brain Health in Later Life

17.Depression

18. Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach

19.Resilience

20. Palliative Care in Older Adults: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach

21. Polypharmacy and Deprescribing

22.Caregiver Health

23.Reducing Fall Risk with Lifestyle Modifications

24. Obesity in Older Adults- Lifestyle Medicine Perspective

25. Osteoporosis and Bone Health

26. A Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Constipation