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 ...

Kellie Flood, MD (Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care) and Emily Simmons, MSN, RN, CNL, FGNLA (NICHE Coordinator) led the 10th Annual UAB Geriatric Quality Symposium on Friday, September 6, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

To help address the needs of the growing numbers of people age 55 and over, Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton has launched Cooley Dickinson Geriatric Services. The new program will offer ...

Implementing the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) program leads to better ...