Geriatric Medicine News

A 73-year-old woman presents with her daughter, who lives down the street from her, and her husband of 51 years for her annual Medicare wellness visit. She has been a patient in the practice for the past 7 to 8 years. She is a retired teacher.

In a trial of more than 20,000 older adults, vitamin D supplementation trended toward reducing risk for major CV events in older adults compared with placebo, a finding differing from previous studies.

I want to reflect on a recent patient I admitted: a woman in her 40s who presented with an intractable headache.

A 76-year-old man makes an appointment for an evaluation of shakiness.

The FDA on Wednesday approved the world’s first vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, which followed years of failed attempts by scientists to develop one.

SEATTLE — Antibiotic use in long-term care facilities declined significantly over the course of almost a decade, although there was an uptick in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found.

A 78-year-old man presents after his wife makes an appointment because her husband has become more withdrawn and depressed.

I would like to introduce you to an exciting new feature from Healio: Clinical Pearls for the Front-line PCP.

For older adults, yoga improved lower extremity strength and gait speed, but it did not appear to offer more benefits for frailty markers than other forms of exercise, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

In older adults with treatment-resistant depression, antidepressant augmentation improved well-being significantly over 10 weeks compared with switching medications and was associated with higher incidence of remission.