Seatbelts save lives”? This public service announcement became popular in the 1980s. It helped increase the use of seatbelts in private vehicles. By the mid-1990s, most states required their use by ...

As the Western world grows older, the number of medical workers is dwindling compared to the demand. According to the World ...

NJ Top Docs has reviewed and approved Prabhat Sinha, MD of Ocean Family & Geriatric Associates, LLC in Toms River ...

I moved to Louisiana several months ago with a medical condition that was managed very well in Washington state. After moving to Louisiana, I have had nothing but problems receiving ...

Older adults who experience delirium after hip fracture surgery face a significantly faster decline in memory and thinking ...

The number of older adults is growing. But the number of geriatricians has fallen and other physicians have less training in ...

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has expanded access to an EMR dashboard that supports geriatric care across its acute and ambulatory care practices. Developed by the Division of ...

Mismatches between standard discharge and expert recommendations are linked to worse functional outcomes and higher 3-month ...

The primary endpoint included improvement in any of the five frailty phenotype criteria, such as unintentional weight loss or exhaustion, or a one-point increase in the Short Physical Performance ...

Balhan did not know it then, but her dad’s experience at the hospital is so common it has a name: ER boarding. One in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission ...

A Tennessee woman allegedly neglected her 74-year-old dad so badly that three of his vertebrae were visible due to "extensive ...

An elderly couple who died in a house fire were the unintended victims of an arson attack over a drugs dispute, a court has heard. Sheila Jackson, 83, and Eric Greener, 77, died when their house in ...