Geriatricians are trained to look beyond individual illnesses that older adults may face, and instead to look at the bigger ...

Explosive growth in America's geriatric population is one reason medical school professors and practicing physicians advise all aspiring doctors to learn the basics of geriatric medicine. The number ...

A four-physician geriatrics practice would lose $122,520 a year, the group estimated. For those practices, the cuts could mean laying off nurses and clerical workers.Doctors are lobbying Congress to ...

Drs. Skendzel, Eldevick & Hopper answer viewer questions on geriatrics & hospice care. Physicians Laurence Skendzel, Family Medicine; Karen Eldevick, Family Medicine/Senior Health; and Katriina Hopper ...

Our physicians, geriatric nurse practitioner and social workers offer a variety of clinical services to older patients, including comprehensive geriatric assessment; in-hospital consultation; ...

Thirty-five years ago, Jerry Gurwitz was among the first physicians in the United States to be credentialed as a geriatrician — a doctor who specializes in the care of older adults. "I understood the ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. is currently facing a shortage of physicians who specialize in a unique and complex population. They are called geriatricians. Geriatricians are physician experts in caring for and ...

Older people are not simply younger people with wrinkles — our bodies change dramatically as we age, both inside and out, and some parts wear out before others, unpredictably, sometimes several parts ...