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 ...

Implementing the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) program can reduce rates of death after surgery and increase the percentage of patients with documentation ...

Patients who were cared for within in the Geriatric Fracture Program at Cedars-Sinai were hospitalized for less time and at a lower cost than those whose physicians did not participate in the program, ...

The Heersink School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry provides a comprehensive training experience in the Geriatric Psychiatry ...

The School of Dental Medicine offers multiple programs that benefit the Cleveland community. Among them is the Geriatric Dentistry Program—Lifelong Smiles, through which a 38-foot mobile van travels ...

The American College of Surgeons Geriatric Surgery Verification program significantly decreases hospital stays among older cancer patients, according to researchers who implemented the program at ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American College of Emergency Physicians has created a voluntary accreditation program to improve the treatment of elderly patients in emergency departments. Geriatric patients make up a ...