The number of older adults is growing. But the number of geriatricians has fallen and other physicians have less training in ...

Understanding the needs of older adults and geriatric medicine could be of real importance as the world's population shifts and the issue impacts more people. Elderly is an age descriptor used to ...

Dermatology Nursing. 2004;16(6):547-548. The adapted Beers' Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have ...

Mismatches between standard discharge and expert recommendations are linked to worse functional outcomes and higher 3-month ...

Purpose: Types of medication misunderstanding among community-dwelling elderly people were studied. Methods: Community-dwelling people who were at least 65 years of age and who volunteered to ...

Polypharmacy, or the concurrent use of five or more medications, is common in older adults and increases the risk of adverse drug interactions. While deprescribing unnecessary drugs can combat this ...

There is effective protection against hip fracture for the many elderly people whose skeleton is declining in strength, as a side effect of cortisone treatment. If patients receive the osteoporosis ...

Geriatric medication management: Evaluation of pharmacist interventions and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in older (≥65 years) cancer patients No significant financial relationships ...

An expert in internal medicine and geriatrics, Dr. Scannell sees patients with a wide range of conditions affecting older adults, including complex geriatric syndromes. She specializes in caring for ...

There is a national shortage of geriatricians, with only about one for every 10,000 older adults. Florida has a significant need for geriatric specialists, as it is home to 20% of the nation's ...

Analysis of the medical records of 1,269 elderly patients with advanced cancer by researchers at the University of Tsukuba ...