Nearly 100 UA medical students, department heads and College of Medicine physicians attended a conference Friday to learn about geriatrics, the study of disease or disability prevention in the elderly ...

Falls and dementia are some of the most common syndromes affecting the health of older adults, but many primary care physicians are not specifically trained to screen for them. The Indiana Geriatrics ...

Saint Louis University’s Gateway Geriatric Education Center develops leading-edge education for current and future geriatric professionals and has been funded by the Health Resources and Services ...

An endowed professorship has been established to honor Andrew Duxbury, M.D., a leading geriatrics physician in The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, ...

A newly developed curriculum that trains bachelor of nursing degree students in geriatric care has been introduced by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of ...

VIRGINIA (WFXR) – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have introduced a new bipartisan act to help improve how the workforce adapts to the aging population. Kaine, Collins, along ...

GRAND FORKS – Jeremy Holloway, director of geriatrics education at UND and founder of Tellegacy – a health care service seeking to reduce isolation and loneliness among the elderly – won the East ...

The newly-minted Utah Geriatric Education Center is ready to enhance health care provider workforce capacity to improve geriatric preventative care across Utah funded by a $2.6 million federal grant ...

Geriatric dentistry, or gerodontology, has become an increasingly critical field as demographic trends forecast a growing elderly population globally. Dental education programmes are evolving to ...

Twenty-five years ago, there were about 35 million Americans age 65 or older and about 10,000 board certified specialists in geriatric medicine to care for them. Today, there about 60 million older ...