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Functional status change between two points in time is significantly associated with the risks of subsequent nursing-facility placement and death, concluded a recent study in the Journal of Gerontology: Social [...]

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), despite its immediate availability in a geriatric care facility, was not effective with frail elderly patients who have multiple medical problems, concluded a recent study in the [...]

A recent study shows that elderly nursing home residents are at a greater risk for subsequent death than elderly people who remain in their communities. The study was conducted from [...]

A recent study found the following as the most common surgical procedures performed on elderly nursing home patients: 1) Primary hip fracture repair, 2) Non-orthopedic extremity surgeries (the most common [...]

Depression is significantly associated with mortality among institutionalized elderly, a recent study shows. The effects of depression, however, are not separate from those of physical health and functioning. The study [...]

Chronically ill long-term care residents with low cholesterol levels and other signs of malnutrition may be at risk of imminent death, according to Baltimore researchers who followed 224 nursing home [...]