It may be possible to give older people better care during emergency room (ER) visits while keeping costs down for insurers and hospitals. A recent study revealed that geriatric nurse specialist ...

A national pilot program designed to improve outcomes for elderly surgical patients is scalable and can be implemented in a wide range of hospital types - from community hospitals to urban academic ...

A recent study found that community-dwelling older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were more likely to experience geriatric conditions. In a study published in Frontiers in ...

How Did a Multi-Institutional Trial Show Feasibility of Electronic Data Capture in Older Patients With Cancer? Results From a Multi-Institutional Qualitative Study (Alliance A171902) A total of one ...

Study: More Geriatric Trauma Patients Predicts Better Outcomes Hospitals will higher proportions of geriatric trauma patients report lower in-hospital mortality, fewer major complications and less ...

Depression and loneliness can be prevented using structured telephone-based psychological care, delivered over eight weeks, according to new research. A large team of social scientists, psychologists ...

Individuals who live in poverty or are homeless experience geriatric conditions — including cognitive issues, visual impairment, urinary incontinence and falls — at a younger age than individuals ...

2019 NOV 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily-- Investigators discuss new findings in Aging Research - Geriatrics and Gerontology. According to news ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HRC Fertility, one of the largest providers of advanced fertility care, is calling on the medical community to eliminate the term “geriatric pregnancy” after new national ...

In a new study published in Engineering, academician Yingze Zhang's research team introduces the Proximal Femur Bionic Nail (PFBN) as a potential panacea for unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures ...