Geriatricians are trained to look beyond individual illnesses that older adults may face, and instead to look at the bigger ...

Depression. Depression is strongly linked to a lack of self-efficacy, especially when it comes to adherence. 10,21 Hopelessness is a key factor in both depression and lack of self-efficacy, which in ...

Elderly woman sitting on the edge of her bed holding her medication and looking down. This study aimed to improve older patients’ care during their time spent in the Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) ...

Increasingly frail and wary of doctors’ offices and hospitals, Michael Fox’s mother was the type of patient who inspired the 2015 creation of UAB House Calls. UAB House Calls offers a different kind ...

Boston Medical Center’s Geriatrics program has been named one of the 50 best in the country in this year’s rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The top ranking stems from the hospital’s work in ...

The pandemic has highlighted the acute shortage of nurses and nursing assistants needed to care for the growing number of older adults in long-term care facilities. Yet getting nursing students ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Geriatric assessment was successfully implemented in 10 Dutch centers with 191 patients. The relevance of ...

A free tool aims to increase oncologists’ use of formal geriatric assessments (GAs) in older patients with cancer. Such assessments seek to measure factors beyond age that can affect a patient’s risk ...

Impact of Geriatric Assessment and Management on Quality of Life, Unplanned Hospitalizations, Toxicity, and Survival for Older Adults With Cancer: The Randomized 5C Trial From 2014 to 2019, the study ...