Primary care teams reduced their prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications to older veterans after participation in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Scholars Program. Objectives: The ...

“Future program evaluations will need to include a larger sample size to really tease out the differences in outcomes between the Geriatric Fracture Program and standard of care,” said Kathleen Breda, ...

Community-based organizations providing behavioral health services for older New Yorkers will need to effectively deploy data to form critical partnerships with health systems and managed-care ...

CHICAGO: People age 65 years and older account for 40 percent of inpatient operations and one-third of outpatient procedures, 1,2 and these older patients are more vulnerable to longer hospital stays ...

Dr Dilipan Selvam Alli, Consultant, Internal Medicine, Diabetology, Geriatrics, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai in an exclusive interaction with ETHealthworld's Rashmi Mabiyan Kaur shares how of Apollo ...

Kellie Flood, MD (Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care) and Emily Simmons, MSN, RN, CNL, FGNLA (NICHE Coordinator) led the 10th Annual UAB Geriatric Quality Symposium on Friday, September 6, ...

There has been a considerable amount of dialogue recently over the cost savings associated with specialized hospital units for elderly patients, such as geriatric service lines and emergency ...

Implementing the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) program can reduce rates of death after surgery and increase the percentage of patients with documentation ...

GRAVETTE — The Missouri operators of Ozarks Community Hospital opened a geriatric psychiatry program this month to help round out its service offerings at its only Arkansas location. The locked-down, ...

To help address the needs of the growing numbers of people age 55 and over, Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton has launched Cooley Dickinson Geriatric Services. The new program will offer ...