A system-wide data tool for frailty, dementia, or end-of-life patients has reduced inequalities, improved collaboration and ...

Medicare Advantage enrollees, particularly Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander decedents, use less end-of-life home health care than those enrolled in traditional Medicare.

Delivering hospital-level care in the home makes sense if patients prefer it, it's safe and it's cost-effective, said Matthew Notowidigdo, a healthcare economics professor at the University of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Older patients' survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer had a significant association with baseline ...

A Nova Scotia Health ... a geriatric medicine clinic in Dartmouth, N.S., should allow more older adults to be seen by the health-care system in a timely fashion and allow them to stay at home ...

Budget 2025 is an opportunity to create an ecosystem that offers senior citizens long, healthy and dignified lives, says ...

Remarkably few nursing homes patients see geriatricians, even though they’re among the physicians most likely to spend the majority of their workday in long-term care facilities, a new study found.

Black individuals in the U.S. with serious illnesses receive disproportionately poor pain management and health care ...

Meanwhile, as to our presidency — of which you may have heard — Buchanan, who was exiting and leaving the fight to Lincoln, offered on March 4, 1861: “If you’re as happy, my dear sir, on entering this ...

Baseline geriatric assessment vulnerabilities and quality of life scores correlate with overall survival in patients with ...

Healthcare providers are encouraged to use these tools to help care for their older patients ... in order to perform a more comprehensive geriatric assessment, or they may pick and choose specific ...