Geriatric Medicine News

In a final recommendation statement, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said health care professionals should advise community-dwelling adults aged 65 years and older who are at risk for falls to participate in exercise interventions.

A recent survey showed that only about one-quarter of older adults have received respiratory syncytial virus vaccinations.

HOUSTON — Natural language processing could reduce the need for manual chart reviews to determine a patient’s risk for carrying or being infected with multidrug-resistant organisms, according to a study.

Older patients with respiratory syncytial virus have higher complication rates than those with influenza, although both illnesses had comparable mortality rates, researchers found.

Moderna announced positive interim results from a phase 3 trial of its next-generation COVID-19 vaccine, which the company said will help pave the way for its combination shot against COVID-19 and influenza.

A 75-year-old man presents for evaluation of profound fatigue of at least 3 months’ duration.

Around one in eight hospitalized adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in a Michigan study were inappropriately diagnosed, and most of those patients received unneeded antibiotics, according to a study.

Many older adults who regularly use aspirin do not have a history of CVD, demonstrating a lack of adherence to recent guidelines, according to a recent survey from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.

The results of the second annual national primary care scorecard suggest the field is facing major problems — poor funding and a diminishing workforce, among them — but increased attention on the issues may offer hope, according to experts.

The CDC on Wednesday recommended a spring COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for adults aged 65 years or older.