Caring for elderly individuals who remain silent or communicate minimally presents unique challenges for caregivers and health care professionals. Understanding the complex factors behind this silence ...

The modern healthcare system operates on a fundamental belief that more testing equals better care, especially for older adults. This approach, while well-intentioned, has created an unexpected crisis ...

To address the complex clinical needs of the older adult patient, Karen Devereaux Melillo argues in a recent editorial that it's imperative to prepare nurses as gerontological specialists. [1] Despite ...

The patient's condition, along with her multiple injuries, posed significant mobilization challenges and required an interdisciplinary approach when initiating a care strategy of different therapies.

"Hepatectomy, including minor and major hepatectomy, may be safe and oncologically feasible in older patients with HCC who have few comorbidities, good liver function reserve, and good performance ...

Researchers offer recommendations for addressing polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use among older patients with cancer. In a narrative review published in The Journal of ...

Analysis of the medical records of 1,269 elderly patients with advanced cancer by researchers at the University of Tsukuba ...

Randomized Comparison of Every-2-Week Darbepoetin Alfa and Weekly Epoetin Alfa for the Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia: The 20030125 Study Group Trial The goal of this study was to ...