Education

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Seniors are willing to take their doctor’s advice to discontinue an unneeded medication after viewing an educational video, investigators say.

As a Physical Therapist for several years (and even several decades), I’ve participated in rehabilitating a lot of joints. Some shoulders, a few elbows, some hips, and lots and lots of knees. Our job...

The pilot program at a post-acute care hospital in Toronto successfully brought physicians and nurses out of their silos and revealed an opportunity to correct inefficiencies, geriatricians say.

The results highlight the “unique and specific nature of medical care provided by attending physicians across a range of PALTC settings,” concluded a task force of industry experts.

In an older birth cohort, women had poorer verbal fluency scores than men, a measure that’s been linked to dementia risk. But this difference progressively reversed in groups that were born more...

Missed bill payments and lowered credit scores may be evident years before a dementia diagnosis, a new study shows. Earlier diagnosis could help protect patients’ financial well-being, investigators...

A winter featuring flu and COVID-19 may create a diagnostic muddle for clinicians, said NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in a Thursday news conference. There is a pressing need to educate patients about getting...

People who learn to read and write may have lifelong cognitive advantages over people who never learn these skills, a new study has found.

New guidelines have been released on what type of diabetes self-management education and support should be given to patients, and how and when healthcare providers deliver that information.