An employee at an east Georgia care home is being charged with battery and exploiting an elderly person after a man died ...

Dr. Y*, a psychiatrist practicing in Missouri, has witnessed many of his geriatric patients fall prey to extortion, often ...

The 911 calls have been released from an Augusta beating that left a 82-year-old patient dead in January. The incident ...

Although recent studies have attempted to document the risks for falling in the general elderly population, and to a certain degree in the PD patient population, no investigations (to our ...

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) recently made recommended updates to the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries (STEADI) toolkit, focusing on fall prevention initiatives in primary care ...

Older adults who experience injurious falls are more likely to develop dementia within a year of their accident compared to ...

Richmond County Coroner Mark Bowen says his office is investigating a suspicious death that happened in January.

According to the National Institute of Aging, older people are more likely to be affected by the cold. The elderly may not be aware when their body temperature becomes too cold, which can become a ...

Providence Healthcare's Falls Prevention Clinic offers education and resources to help patients prevent falls and improve ...

This study group was distinct from healthy elderly persons in the ... be for health professionals to assess patients' knowledge of the risk factors for falling routinely and then provide education ...