WASHINGTON (AP) - When Marie Brown's 97-year-old mother fell and broke her hip two years ago, it started the family on an often frustrating quest for appropriate medical care. Doctors unfamiliar with ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. is currently facing a shortage of physicians who specialize in a unique and complex population. They are called geriatricians. Geriatricians are physician experts in caring for and ...

They want Congress to address the issue this year as lawmakers write far-reaching Medicare reform legislation.“The shortage of geriatric-trained health care professionals is reaching crisis levels,” ...

Though her energy and physical fitness might not suggest it, Curby’s age places her in the medical category of “geriatric.” A geriatric patient is generally defined as an individual aged 65 and older.

Explosive growth in America’s geriatric population is one reason medical school professors and practicing physicians advise all aspiring doctors to learn the basics of geriatric medicine. The number ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamHealth Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TMH), a leading physician services organization, announced the acquisition of Houston, Texas-based Everest Inpatient ...

Dimmed lighting, a more comfortable bed, music and a larger call button to the nurses’ station — when it comes to reducing anxiety among geriatric patients, the emergency department at Physicians ...

Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth, a physician services organization, has acquired Houston-based Everest Inpatient Physicians and Jackson, Tenn.-based Geriatric Essentials in its first step into the ...