Senior Health
Geriatrics is a sub-specialty of internal medicine and family medicine that focuses on health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. There is no set age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician, or physician who specializes in the care of elderly people. Rather, this decision is determined by the individual patient's needs.
Senior Health Stories
Buying groceries in a virtual world could be a test for Alzheimer’s disease.
Want better skin? Collagen is a protein that does a lot more than add to the cost of a skin cream — it is essential to keeping your body working. But you need to ingest it.
Our body is constantly taking care of business, such as making our heart beat, without any conscious input from our mind.
Women’s brains start to show signs of decline well before they become senior citizens.
Sitting in a chair to do yoga could help people with pain in their lower joints.
Will a futuristic anti-aging serum be available soon? Some details still need to be figured out.
A lot of us feel the urge to nap during the day, so maybe we should embrace it.
Doctors took measurements of two body parts in older patients and found that when one of them was bigger, those people were less likely to die of heart disease.
Experts are calling on doctors to use their patients’ social relationships to encourage them to live healthier lives.
More people die from heart problems during the Christmas season and it has nothing to do with the winter weather.
A new study from Pennsylvania State University has pointed to lifestyle choices as the reason for decreased life expectancy.
Since World War II, life expectancy in the United States mostly rose until 2015. What accounts for the recent dip?