Ethics Committee updated its 2017 statement “Making Medical Treatment Decisions for Unbefriended Older Adults,” refreshing the language and citing newer clinical studies. The report also urged health ...

There are a handful of common medicines that, according to doctors, if taken for a long time, can spike your risk of dementia ...

Research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has identified several community-level factors that may ...

Older adults with frailty were less likely to stop taking opioids within a month after their fractures, a new study finds. Having Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia (ADRD) didn’t play a role in ...

Research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has identified several community-level factors that may increase people’s risk of experiencing cognitive impairment.

Several community-wide social and environmental factors are associated with the onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in ...

The UAB Geriatric Medicine Fellowship will support the travel and registration expenses for 2 conferences a year, the American Geriatric Society (AGS) Annual Meeting and the Society for Post-Acute and ...