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 ...

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 ...

Funding for current and additional GWEPs is necessary for a sustained commitment to geriatrics education and better care for a growing population of older adults. Developing a health care workforce ...

"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, ...

Faculty Lead: Ali-Asghar Ali, M.D. Challenges: In the United States, the prevalence of dementia continues to rise. Currently 5.7 million Americans have Alzheimer's, with only 50 percent of individuals ...

Local hospitals are elevating their care for the elderly, in some cases even before the seniors show up at their doors as patients. Mount Carmel Health System, for example, has begun offering tai-chi ...

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

The American College of Emergency Physicians has created a voluntary accreditation program to improve the treatment of elderly patients in emergency departments. Geriatric patients make up a ...

Elizabeth Nesset knows that when she graduates from medical school she wants to specialize in geriatrics, the treatment of older people. But already, thanks to a new and one-of-a-kind program at UMD's ...

The School of Dental Medicine offers multiple programs that benefit the Cleveland community. Among them is the Geriatric Dentistry Program—Lifelong Smiles, through which a 38-foot mobile van travels ...