More than a century ago, Elie Metchnikoff, winner of the Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine in 1908, proposed the term gerontology to define the “scientific study of old age.”1 Six years later, Ignatz Leo Nascher coined the term geriatrics to...
We first estimated the prevalence of physical frailty in older subjects from the population-based Salus in Apulia Study (Apulia, Southern Italy), and its impact on all-cause mortality. Second, we explored the relationship between multimorbidity and...
To address the condition that community-based geriatric services for the assessment and promotion of older adults’ cognitive ability systemically aimed at delaying or preventing dementia is lacking in China.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Medical director agreements are critical to establishing obligations and boundaries between the provider and the physician leader. Yet too often the two go into the arrangement with different expectations...
Elizabeth Richter, a long-time career civil servant who most recently served as the deputy director for tCMS, will take over as the acting CMS administrator. Ms. Richter will take over for Seema Verma, who submitted her resignation effective January...
To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS extended the 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception application deadline to February 1. For the 2020...
An Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that Medicare improperly paid for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) services when patients didn’t meet the Medicare 3-Day inpatient hospital stay requirement. Review the Skilled Nursing Facility 3-Day...
Heading into the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030), health practitioners must respond to the quest to help older people maintain functional ability1 as they age. Functional ability is defined as the capability to be and do what...
Acute medical illness and subsequent hospitalization are associated with several negative health consequences in older adults, even when the acute disease that caused the hospital admission is successfully treated.1,2 Loss of function in activities...
Older people have a higher susceptibility for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms and mortality.1 Current studies examining the relation between outcome and frailty in COVID-19 show...
