Study: More Geriatric Trauma Patients Predicts Better Outcomes Hospitals will higher proportions of geriatric trauma patients report lower in-hospital mortality, fewer major complications and less ...

To address the complex clinical needs of the older adult patient, Karen Devereaux Melillo argues in a recent editorial that it's imperative to prepare nurses as gerontological specialists. [1] Despite ...

Older adults are more likely to be misdiagnosed than other adults. Multiple conditions and medications can make it tricky. Geriatric ERs are an answer to this problem and they are catching on. It can ...

The patient's condition, along with her multiple injuries, posed significant mobilization challenges and required an interdisciplinary approach when initiating a care strategy of different therapies.

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"Physicians are often accused of providing too much care to elderly patients at the end of life, but there's evidence that these patients also get far too little care before reaching that point," a ...

Cleveland Clinic’s geriatric emergency department model led to an overall reduction in admissions of older ED patients of 42%, and reduced the odds of admission for older ED observational patients by ...

NHS patients are enduring a "broken system" of corridor care, new findings from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) reveal.