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, ...

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 ...

Good Samaritan Hospital, a member of Catholic Health, was awarded recertification of the Geriatric Fracture Care program by The International Geriatric Fracture Society (IGFS). In achieving this ...

A national pilot program designed to improve outcomes for elderly surgical patients is scalable and can be implemented in a wide range of hospital types - from community hospitals to urban academic ...

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 ...

A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society shows how pre-medical students exposed to geriatric medicine developed an increased interest in the speciality — a ...

“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, ...

Greetings! Thank you for your interest in the Baylor College of Medicine Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship. Our program provides exceptional training that is built on respect, interprofessional ...

Saint Louis University's Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) offers comprehensive support services that promote the health and well-being of older adults and their caregivers. GWEP's group ...