Geriatric Medicine News

FALLS are so harmful to the elderly and so costly to society that if falling were a disease, it would be deemed an epidemic.

Senior neurologist Krishnamoorthy Srinivas receives the MedIndia Oration Award from Managing Director of The Hindu N.Murali at a function in Chennai on Saturday.

Dr. Suzanne Walters- Castillo, from the Department of Professional Development, Programs on Aging, UW-Madison, will present a seminar on "Behavior Changes in the Elderly and their impact on families." The Wisconsin Rapids session will be held from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov.

Our companion animals rocket through infancy in six short months, struggle though an adolescence that seems like forever but it's actually only 12 to 18 months, and then reach that plateau known as adulthood - ages 2 to 8. Different breeds of dogs age at different rates, with large breeds aging more rapidly than toy breeds.

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol for good health - as reflected in the hopes of raised glasses since time immemorial and validated scientifically in recent years - has been challenged in a new study by researchers in Italy, where, mind you, criticizing wine is tantamount to blasphemy.

A recent report from the University of Iowa Center on Aging found a startling gap between the growing number of people who need geriatric health care services and the limited supply of those services in the state.

Chief Minister K Rosaiah receiving a copy of book on Geriatrics from MLA P. Shankar Rao, who is also the president of Geriatric Society, at the 13th a Express News Service First Published : Last Updated : HYDERABAD: Here is some good news for senior citizens.

Barbara Bruce entertains the adults in her Mental Aerobics class by balancing a peacock feather on her finger.

From Department of Psychiatry , Department of Geriatrics , University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, Belle-Ide, Geneva, Switzerland; 1st Department of Psychiatry , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Service of Old Age Psychiatry , Department of Psychiatry, Hospices-CHUV, University of Lausanne School of ...

Arthur Cohen was a healthy, active 85-year-old when his Toronto doctor recommended a colonoscopy to check for early signs of colorectal cancer.

Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Edited by Jeffrey B. Halter, Joseph G. Ouslander, Mary E. Tinetti, Stephanie Studenski, Kevin P. High, and Sanjay Asthana 6th ed, 1634 pp, $210.95 New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Inc, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-0714-8872-3 JAMA.

An epidemiological study on pneumonia and influenza in adults age 65 and over reports that patients with dementia are diagnosed with flu less frequently, have shorter hospital stays, and have a fifty percent higher rate of death than those without dementia.

Background Hip fractures are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality for older adults.

Just three months of physical activity reaps heart health benefits for older adults with type 2 diabetes by improving the elasticity in their arteries - reducing risk of heart disease and stroke, Dr.

American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias Edited by Myron F. Weiner and Anne M. Lipton 4th ed, 557 pp, $125 Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-5856-2278-8 JAMA.

National HealthCare Corporation, Murfreesboro, Tenn, reports that the NHC Geriatric Clinical Residency Program for physical therapists has received accreditation through the American Physical Therapy Association .

Fifteen years ago, Sandy Peterson's father-in-law had back pain so severe he walked with a bend.

When loved ones reach an age where they can no longer care for themselves family members want to know that they are in good hands, and local business Pappy's Home Care provides its clients with compassion that is not easy to come by in the senior care business.

E-mail: skojima@postman.riken.go.jp Received 3 February 2009; Revised 20 July 2009; Accepted 31 July 2009; Published online 19 October 2009.

Objective To ascertain whether there are incremental risks associated with thyroid surgery in the elderly population.