Geriatric Medicine News

ONE THING that is lost in the health care debate is how to care for the elderly.

North Fulton Regional Hospital further expands its senior care services with the addition of Sudeshna Nandi, MD, to the medical staff.

Geisinger Health System is one of only six healthcare organizations in the United States invited by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University to participate in a new pilot program, Medicare Innovations Collaborative .

Tatyana Faynberg , a Russian immigrant, was interviewed by Tufts medical students, from left, Michael Castellot, Robert Mendenhall, and Peilan Tang in her Brighton housing complex.

The University of Waterloo and funding partners will announce next week an innovative approach involving the appointment of a leading medical specialist that provides better geriatric care for seniors in Waterloo Region and Wellington County.

When a nurse in the orthopedic unit asked her new post-operative patient where she was, the response had a pleasant ring: "I'm at a spa." But that answer sent the nurse straight to the phone.

The study examines how dietary restriction and a high-caloric diet influence biochemical responses.

By LINSEY MAUGHAN STAFF WRITER Blaming the economy, Blanchard Valley Health System is closing the office of Dr.

Image: Medscape.com, Aasi SZ. Dermatologic Diseases and Disorders. In: Pompei P, Murphy JB, eds.

Jean Wible graduated with a degree in nursing from Marywood University in Pennsylvania.

Gene Cohen, an impish geriatric psychiatrist who championed the idea that people past retirement age have untapped stores of creativity and intellectually rigorous skills in their later years, died Saturday of prostate cancer at his home in suburban Kensington, Md.

If you have a geriatric or senior dog, boarding when you travel may require special considerations.

Dementia is a terminal illness. However, people with advanced dementias often languish in skilled nursing facilities, far from the ministrations of specialists.

The finding could lead to better medications to treat Alzheimer's disease, said John Morley, M.D., director of the division of geriatrics at Saint Louis University and the lead researcher on the study.

Healthy People Wood County will hold a program on geriatric mental health from 9:30 a.m. to noon Nov.

FALLS are so harmful to the elderly and so costly to society that if falling were a disease, it would be deemed an epidemic.

Senior neurologist Krishnamoorthy Srinivas receives the MedIndia Oration Award from Managing Director of The Hindu N.Murali at a function in Chennai on Saturday.

Dr. Suzanne Walters- Castillo, from the Department of Professional Development, Programs on Aging, UW-Madison, will present a seminar on "Behavior Changes in the Elderly and their impact on families." The Wisconsin Rapids session will be held from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov.

Our companion animals rocket through infancy in six short months, struggle though an adolescence that seems like forever but it's actually only 12 to 18 months, and then reach that plateau known as adulthood - ages 2 to 8. Different breeds of dogs age at different rates, with large breeds aging more rapidly than toy breeds.

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol for good health - as reflected in the hopes of raised glasses since time immemorial and validated scientifically in recent years - has been challenged in a new study by researchers in Italy, where, mind you, criticizing wine is tantamount to blasphemy.