Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cancer is a disease that disproportionately affects the elderly, and current guidelines recommend a ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although a study on the benefits of geriatric assessment in older patients with cancer did not demonstrate ...
Telehealth geriatric assessment significantly improved short-term outcomes for older adults with advanced cancers. Brazilian study showed better physical function, psychological status, and quality of ...
As the number of elderly patients with cancer continues to rise — and geriatricians remain in short supply — primary care providers and community oncologists need to incorporate formal geriatric ...
How Did a Multi-Institutional Trial Show Feasibility of Electronic Data Capture in Older Patients With Cancer? Results From a Multi-Institutional Qualitative Study (Alliance A171902) A total of one ...
Geriatric assessment tools, including CGA, offer superior prognostic value over traditional performance measures in older DLBCL patients. Comprehensive geriatric assessments reveal frailty levels, ...
Dr. Cris Bergerot and Dr. Enrique Soto join the podcast to discuss the new global guideline on geriatric assessment. This guideline provides evidence-based, resource-stratified recommendations across ...
A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — "Cancer care in the elderly must include a geriatrician," according to Margot Gosney, MD, professor of elderly care medicine at Reading University in the United Kingdom.
Our physicians, geriatric nurse practitioner and social workers offer a variety of clinical services to older patients, including comprehensive geriatric assessment; in-hospital consultation; ...
“Early in life, as toddlers and youngsters, we accumulate skills, which we call activities of daily living (ADLs), such as dressing, eating and personal hygiene,” says Troen. “Unfortunately — and not ...