... Printer-Friendly Version VA RESEARCH: GERIATRIC CARE LEADS TO SAFER PRESCRIBING -- Older vets treated by a geriatric specialist were 36% less likely to ... proportion of patients within a facility receiving geriatric care ranged from 0 to 20%, indicating great variation in geriatric care. Potentially inappropriate prescribing (wrong ... a facility who received at least one geriatric outpatient clinic or inpatient visit. Patients receiving geriatric care in some form within the preceding ... able to distinguish between inpatient and outpatient geriatric care because of the low rates of geriatric care nationally. Overall, 26.... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfJAN08/nf012508-1.htm
2. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 12-13-06 #5nf121306-5.htm
...., professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, ... System, and acting director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center ... edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. "Data from this study ..., clinical instructor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the U-M Health ... Research Center at the U-M Geriatrics Center. The study lasted 10 weeks ... the Mobility Research Center, Division of Geriatric Medicine, at the U-M ... is part of the U-M Geriatrics Center. For information about the Geriatrics Center's Mobility Enhancement Clinic,... http://www.vawatchdog.org/nfDEC06/nf121306-5.htm
3. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 08-10-2007 #8 -- VA RESEARCH SHOWS GERIATRIC HEALTH CONDITIONS HAVE MAJOR EFFECT ON HALF OF ALL SENIORS -- "Older adults tend to have one or more GERIATRIC conditions which are not considered diseases and can be missed by physicians."nf081007-8.htm
... #8 -- VA RESEARCH SHOWS GERIATRIC HEALTH CONDITIONS HAVE MAJOR EFFECT ON HALF ... adults tend to have one or more geriatric conditions which are not considered diseases and ... Bookmark Printer Friendly Page VA RESEARCH SHOWS GERIATRIC HEALTH CONDITIONS HAVE MAJOR EFFECT ON HALF ... adults tend to have one or more geriatric conditions which are not considered diseases and ... physicians." For more information on geriatric veterans, use the VA Watchdog search ...ses search.php?q=GERIATRIC&op=and Story here. ...------- Geriatric Health Conditions Have Major Effect On Half ... tasks. They found that people with geriatric conditions had about the same level of... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfAUG07/nf081007-8.htm
... Click for more information about care of geriatric veterans ... http:/ ...sessearch.p hp?q=geriatric+geriatrics&op=or --- ... He is chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Medical College of ... He is also the section leader in geriatric medicine at Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center ... became part of the then-fledgling geriatric program at the Medical College of Wisconsin ... he was throwing his life away. Geriatrics, doesn't that involve old ... and incompetence? But to Duthie, geriatrics became a calling. One of his... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfmar10/nf030810-5.htm
5. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 09-26-2007 #9 -- FORMER VA DOCTOR REVIVES OLD TRADITION IN PRIVATE PRACTICE: THE HOUSE CALL -- "What has been amazing is the tremendous amount of interest. This is a huge need."nf092607-9.htm
... Jeanna Duerscherl / The Roanoke Times) For more about geriatric medicine, use the VA Watchdog search engine. ...yourvabenefits.org/ sessearch.php?q=geriatric +geriatrics&op=or S tory here... ... He started his own practice providing in-home comprehensive geriatric evaluations. He also performs independent medical evaluations for ... probably the same as the number of geriatricians. "Geriatrics as a field is in its baby stages, ... hospital, where he served as both director of the Geriatric Evaluation Unit and medical director of the Extended Care... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfSEP07/nf092607-9.htm
... Cut Back Or Stop Taking Medications, Finds Study Presented At American Geriatrics Society Increases in copayments for potentially life-saving medications can ... suggests a study that will be presented here today at the American Geriatrics Society's 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting. The Society' ... Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. About AGS Founded in 1942, the American Geriatrics Society is a nationwide, not-for-profit association of geriatrics health care professionals dedicated to improving the health, independence and quality ... become a pivotal force in shaping attitudes, policies and practices in geriatric medicine. ---------... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfMAY08/nf050608-8.htm
... of Medicine and Alzheimer Disease Research Center at UCLA, and the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los ... Geffen School of Medicine and a researcher at the VA's Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, is a co investigator. ... System and Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center combine resources to form a unified Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, one of 20 nationwide. ... the advancement and integration of research, education and clinical achievements in geriatrics and gerontology into the total VA health care system and broader .../www.adc.ucla.edu/ . # VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center: http://... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes JAN 06/newsflash01-26-2006-5.htm
... The study is published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. SDB includes apnea temporary cessation of breathing as well as hypopnea, ... breathing,' according to lead author Adam P. Spira, Phd, a geriatrics researcher at SFVAMC. Using standard cognitive tests, the researchers measured the cognitive ... of sleep-related physiologic responses,' explains Spira, who is also a geriatrics fellow at UCSF. 'We looked at heart rate, respiration, brain ... SDB is treatable,' says senior author Kristine Yaffe, MD, chief of geriatric psychiatry at SFVAMC and professor of psychiatry, neurology, and epidemiology at UCSF... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfJAN08/nf011208-7.htm
... medically inappropriate catheterization was also higher among women, patients with disability or dementia, and patients admitted with a geriatric condition such as confusion or frequent falls. The study appears in the December, 2005 issue of the ... to be getting unnecessary catheterizations," observes principal investigator Seth Landefeld, MD, associate chief of staff of geriatrics and extended care at SFVAMC and Senior Scholar in the VA National Quality Scholar Program. The study identified ... to carry out common activities of daily living, a physician's order for bed rest, and three geriatric conditions confusion, falls, and failure to thrive at home. Patients with five or more risk factors... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes MAY 06/newsflash05-23-2006-2.htm
10. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 04-09-2007 #1 -- VETERANS PRAISE TUCSON VA'S POLYTRAUMA PROGRAM -- "We get out and moving and even got to go to a ball game with one of the therapists."nf040907-1.htm
... game with one of the therapists." Florence A. Gores, clinical director at the Tucson VA s geriatrics and rehabilitation center, says the Tucson facility was selected as a polytrauma network site for Veterans Integrated Service ... severe and disabling polytrauma injuries, said Florence Gores, an RN and the clinical director for the VA s Geriatrics and Rehabilitation Center in Tucson. Polytrauma is defined as two or more injuries to physical regions or organ ... their lives again, said Kent Wilson, coordinator and speech therapist in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the VA Geriatric and Rehabilitation Center. The most common problem we are seeing is traumatic brain injury because of the blast... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfAPR07/nf040907-1.htm
