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Concurrent

80 Is the New 40: The Future of Critical Care Research Involving Older Adults

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Central Time
Location: W181

Aging Adult Track

    Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

  • Judith Tate, PhD, RN

    The Ohio State University College of Nursing, Ohio

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

  • Snigdha Jain, MD (she/her/hers)

    Yale Medicine, Connecticut

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

Patients at extremes of age are poorly represented in clinical trials. Those of advanced age have been excluded because of multiple morbidities and disabilities. Overall, older adults account for less than 10% of all clinical trial subjects, and most older trial participants are healthier, with fewer comorbidities and concurrent medications than the average older adult requiring critical care. Selection bias, recruitment strategies, and other factors contribute to underenrollment of older adults in trials. This poses a threat to the external validity of these trials and complicates applying trial results to the patient population most likely to require care. In this session, the three cochairs of SCCM's new guideline on Caring for Older Adults in the ICU will discuss key considerations on the inclusion of older adults in critical care trials and provide insights into the data used to develop the new guideline.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify underlying factors that may lead to the exclusion of geriatric participants in clinical trials
  • Explain challenges in deriving accurate clinical trial conclusions when intended treatment users are not enrolled or are underenrolled in trials
  • Discuss methods for addressing and overcoming barriers to including geriatric patients in clinical trials

Presentations:

  • 2:35 PM - 2:50 PM Central Time
    Geriatric Syndromes and Their Effects on Clinical Outcomes in Trials

    Bram Rochwerg, MD, MSc(Epi), FRCPC (he/him/his) – McMaster University

  • 2:50 PM - 3:05 PM Central Time
    Lessons Learned From Developing Guidelines for Caring for Older Adults in the ICU

    Lauren E. Ferrante, MD, MHS (she/her/hers) – Yale University School of Medicine

  • 3:05 PM - 3:20 PM Central Time
    Growing Wiser: How to Develop Clinical Studies That Actually Enroll End Users

    Nathan Brummel, MD, MSCI – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center