IMN || Geriatric Medicine

New guideline outlines management of hip fractures in elderly patients

Posted on: 25/03/2015 - 16:11

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ new guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of hip fractures in elderly patients targets problem area... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

mSTEADI: Better discharge-to-home rates in elderly fall patients

Posted on: 13/03/2015 - 15:32

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – Modifying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s outpatient fall prevention program STEADI for inpatient use di... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Health status, not age, key to treating prostate cancer in elderly

Posted on: 20/02/2015 - 22:08

PARIS – Health status should be evaluated when determining how best to treat an older man with prostate cancer, attendees at an international congre... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Health status, not age, key to treating prostate cancer in elderly

Posted on: 20/02/2015 - 22:08

PARIS – Health status should be evaluated when determining how best to treat an older man with prostate cancer, attendees at an international congre... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Aging process is complex in highly active adults

Posted on: 15/02/2015 - 18:47

The aging process is highly individualistic and complex, even when many confounding factors are removed, according to Ross D. Pollock, Ph.D., and his ... More »

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Nursing home-onset C. difficile infections cut wide swath

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 20:35

PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Medicare beneficiaries in hospice care get better care, have fewer costs

Posted on: 20/11/2014 - 20:47

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries suffering from poor-prognosis cancer who received hospice care were found to have lower rates of hospitalizations, admissions to intensive care units, and...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Vitamin D deficiency associated with Alzheimer’s

Posted on: 17/10/2014 - 18:06

Our relationship with vitamins and supplements may be approach-avoidance. On one hand, if they are beneficial and patients are motivated to take them, we do not complain. This is likely a marker of...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

ACIP recommends PCV13 for all adults 65 and up

Posted on: 23/09/2014 - 21:52

All adults who are 65 years or older should receive 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) routinely in series with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23), according to a...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Stepwise approach improves diagnostic accuracy in polymyalgia rheumatica

Posted on: 18/09/2014 - 20:42

LAS VEGAS – Up to 30% of patients diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica actually have a different disease, according to Dr. Eric L. Matteson. The proximal pain and stiffness syndrome, which is a...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

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