STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Richmond University Medical Center has tapped Dr. Aaron Gottesman to lead its new geriatric care ...

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 ...

Geriatric care managers guide aging adults through doctors and care decisions. One Michigan care manager wants you to act ...

There has been a considerable amount of dialogue recently over the cost savings associated with specialized hospital units for elderly patients, such as geriatric service lines and emergency ...

Implementing the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) program can reduce rates of death after surgery and increase the percentage of patients with documentation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...