A free tool aims to increase oncologists’ use of formal geriatric assessments (GAs) in older patients with cancer. Such assessments seek to measure factors beyond age that can affect a patient’s risk ...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Patterns and Inequities Among Racial Groups in Brazil's Public Health System: Insights From a 16-Year Real-World Study The study quantifies how often elderly patients with ...

Optimal care for older adults with cancer is often nebulous because of a lack of data. Many practice guidelines are based on data from clinical trials that exclude older adults and instead enroll ...

A comprehensive study of nearly 6,000 patients receiving at-home palliative care found that respite care services more than double the likelihood of elderly patients dying at home rather than in ...

Carceral facilities are not designed to provide long-term skilled nursing facility-level care. With the United States’ population rapidly aging, one facet remains largely unseen: Incarcerated people ...

To discuss the growing challenge of surgery in the rapidly enlarging geriatric population, the American College of Surgeons together with The American Geriatrics Society sponsored a half-day session ...

Are there any guidelines for doing a CT scan of the head in an elderly patient with dementia who has no sign of head or other injury following a witnessed or unwitnessed fall? What is the standard of ...