Geriatric Medicine News

Balancing the demands of work and caring for an elderly family member is a challenge faced by many in the baby boomer generation .

SECRETS FOR SUCCESSFUL AGING Thursday, May 1 from 11 to11:45 a.m. Join Shira Goldberg, MD, Geriatrics, Monmouth Medical Center, for an informative presentation discussing the key strategies to help maintain independence and grow old gracefully.

Construction workers on Wednesday stand on top of what will be the Proton Therapy Center at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland.

Editor's note: Becoming a caregiver for her aging father prompted West Newsmagazine writer Bonnie Krueger to go in search of support and advice.

Maude, a geriatric grey-cheeked mangabey monkey, was humanely euthanized after outliving her expected lifespan -- which is a little more than 30 years, the zoo said in a news release.

Reports on data released to the public by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which include the number and type of Medicare services that individual physicians delivered in 2012 and the amount they were paid for those services, have focused special attention on ophthalmologists .

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the funders or the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Critical Pharmaceuticals , The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust today announces the start of the first Phase I clinical trial in healthy post-menopausal women of a nano-enabled intranasal teriparatide product for the treatment of osteoporosis.

Delirium is a common complication in patients with hip fractures and is associated with an increased risk of subsequent dementia.

The US Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act encourages patients to act as their own advocates for reducing unnecessary prescriptions that increase the risk of harm.

With treatment and counselling at Baycrest Health Sciences in Toronto, Burns-Weinrib has made great strides in her recovery and is fully engaged in life again.

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For years, scientists have been conducting studies indicating brain training exercises can help slow down normal memory loss and cognitive function decline in typical aging adults.

To meet an increasingly urgent need, Congress should earmark $200 million to expand the number of geriatric care workers.

This year, the conference will be April 23 at the Montecito Country Club. Participants will attend presentations with latest dementia research and information occurring nationally and internationally.

The elderly is the fastest-growing segment of the global population, but only a few of their treatments have been clinically tested in age-appropriate patients, and many therapies are still not available in suitable formulations and dosages, according to a report by GBI Research.

It is well known that older adults have longer hospital stays and more rapid functional decline than younger patients, and that these problems are further complicated by contributory physical and cognitive impairments.1 The multiple comorbidities and complexities of the aging population require an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach that ... (more)

The hospital provides services through six acute care hospitals, forty ambulatory care facilities and three geriatric centers.

According to the report, there were 90.1 primary care physicians per 100,000 population in the United States in 2012.

People living with HIV are at greater risk of geriatric syndromes such as frailty and difficulty with daily activities than HIV negative people of the same age -- and this can have a significant effect upon their quality of life as they age, according to several studies presented at the 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections ... (more)