The scenario is common. An elderly person seems to be in good health until one day they suffer a fall and from then on their quality of life begins to deteriorate.

Learn how health systems are preparing for the projected shift in demographics as older Americans are expected to outnumber children for the first time in U.S.

Older adults who wear progressive lenses are more likely to experience a fall or multiple falls than those who wear bifocals.

The US Preventative Services Task Force task force recommends against vitamin D supplements for fall and fracture prevention in healthy older adults, and instead suggests exercise and osteoporosis ...

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency ...

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency ...

One in five older adults gets an infection up to six months after heart surgery—with women far more likely to develop one, ...

TNF inhibitors for the treatment of axial spondyloarthritis may decrease the risk for hip or spine fracture by as much as 29% ...

Discover the top 10 most common inpatient diagnoses among older adults, with sepsis ranking as the leading cause of hospitalization according to a KFF report.

We will compare three weeks of plaster cast immobilization with five weeks of plaster cast immobilization in adult patient with non or minimally displaced distal radial fractures. Study design ...

The destination’s Pearl Cove Beach Club will be for visitors 18 and older, and there will be an adults-only space within Calypso Lagoon with a DJ and swim-up bar. Entry to Carnival’s Serenity ...

Methods Records of 428 consecutive hip fracture patients were collected on a population-basis and data on the general population comprising all Finns 65 years of age or older were collected on a ...