Many of America's seniors have overstuffed pillboxes—which may be doing them harm along with good. A Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data finds that of the 46 million seniors enrolled in ...

The best New Year’s resolution for health for everyone 50 and older is to be as active as possible, according to Dr. Sonja ...

Understanding the needs of older adults and geriatric medicine could be of real importance as the world's population shifts and the issue impacts more people. Elderly is an age descriptor used to ...

Dermatology Nursing. 2004;16(6):547-548. The adapted Beers' Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have ...

Purpose: Types of medication misunderstanding among community-dwelling elderly people were studied. Methods: Community-dwelling people who were at least 65 years of age and who volunteered to ...

The "4M" approach is an emerging framework for age-friendly care that shifts the focus from treating conditions to treating people. The "4Ms" stand for: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and ...

The cost, the shortages, and even the side effects have led to older people who start Ozempic, Wegovy, and similar drugs to ...

There is effective protection against hip fracture for the many elderly people whose skeleton is declining in strength, as a side effect of cortisone treatment. If patients receive the osteoporosis ...

In 2024 and 2025, two thousand older adults received specialised care through the Geriatric Dermatology (GeriDerm) Clinic, a ...

Geriatric medication management: Evaluation of pharmacist interventions and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in older (≥65 years) cancer patients No significant financial relationships ...

ORLANDO—Elderly patients have a higher incidence of drug-induced acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) than younger patients, according to study findings presented at the National Kidney Foundation’s ...