Geriatric Medicine News

Arthroscopy is defined as the visualization of the internal structure of a joint conducted with the help of imaging equipments such as endoscopes.

Project ADAPT tested a multifaceted intervention to improve the diagnosis and treatment of depression in older adults in rural sites.

Our special report on caring for your elderly parents was literally a labor of love for our staff.

From the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Alzheimer Centre Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands ; and Department of Geriatrics, Radboud Alzheimer Centre, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands .

About ten years ago, when Donna Braley was 79, her family started to notice that she was having trouble doing the things that she had always loved to do -- crocheting, cooking, doing crossword puzzles.

Robert Daniels, the psychiatrist who led the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine through the growth era of the 1970s and 1980s, died Oct. 28 at the Villas at Sunny Acres in Denver after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

The Garvin Center for Geriatric Psychiatry, scheduled to open Monday, includes 16 beds, group activity and dining spaces and a sensory-therapy room.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , Vol. 60, No. 8. , pp. 1564-1570, doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04055.x Hypoglycemia is a significant problem in elderly adults with diabetes mellitus.

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They are the low-paid workers who perform the most intimate, most personal tasks for our frail, elderly parents and grandparents.

The Garvin Center for Geriatric Psychiatry, scheduled to open Dec. 2, includes 16 beds, group activity and dining spaces and a sensory-therapy room.

Pickleball games will be 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Community Center, 120 S. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill.

As we age, we experience a progressive decline in many of our bodily functions. This decline can vary greatly from individual to individual.

Caprio is an assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center , where he directs the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship program.

Why is dementia strongly associated with age? Why is it associated with low blood pressure for people in their 90s? What are the risk factors for dementia? UC Irvine professor and geriatric neurologist Claudia Kawas has hunches, and she expects her ongoing study of people who are 90 and older will provide some concrete answers.

Nursing home staff should adopt evidence-based approaches to pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, and significantly more research is needed, a geriatric medicine professor said Saturday.

Routine fundic examination of geriatric cats can help identify ocular lesions associated with hypertension before they produce clinical signs, according to a study in the New Zealand Veterinary Journal .

BO's gutsy new series Getting On , which starts this Sunday night and is based on a British show of the same name , is set on a hospital's geriatric extended-care floor.

Bring your lunch as the Belmont League of Women Voters hosts a "brown bag" discussion with Belmont School Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston at noon in the Flett Room of the Belmont Public Library about the need to renovate/rebuild the Belmont High School and about other school overcrowding and facility needs.

The Garvin Center for Geriatric Psychiatry, scheduled to open Dec. 2, includes 16 beds, group activity and dining spaces and a sensory-therapy room.