geriatrics

Research suggests that these new disabilities can lead to readmissions, placement in a nursing home, and continued declines in patients'...

About 13% show problems likely to impair their ability to practice medicine.

An age-friendly health system uses an evidence-based framework called the 4Ms to improve outcomes, shorten hospital stays, and meet the...

Over 61% of respondents said staffing is the biggest problem facing their organization.

The Trump administration redesigned the online Medicare Cost Finder for seniors to compare complex health insurance options. But consumer advocates...

The four different approaches to establishing geriatric emergency department services vary in the amount of resources required.

Study calls for universal pre-surgery frailty screenings, even for procedures determined to be of low or moderate risk.

NICHE program supports healthcare organizations in caring for older adults.

Cost to Medicare and Medicaid is estimated at $37.5 billion annually.

Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an 'epidemic of immobility.'

HHS is taking steps to establish a National Volunteer Care Corps.

The study found that 90% of hospitals with palliative care are in urban areas, and 17% of rural hospitals with...