An analysis of millions of Medicare records has laid the groundwork for improving end-of-life care by demonstrating that nearly all older Americans follow one of nine trajectories in their last three years of life.
Brown University researchers reveal the cellular mechanism behind why the elderly are at risk of infection and death from SARS-CoV-2.
Elderly patients who are hospitalized with pneumonia are twice as likely to die as those hospitalized with hip fractures, yet many elderly people fail to accurately assess their risk of pneumonia, concludes research which will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
A report released in July found that, in 2002, the prices of most popular drugs for seniors rose far faster than did the rate of inflation.
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