Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Functional status is an important factor to consider when evaluating the overall health of older patients, ...

Why Is Geriatric Assessment so Infrequently Used in Oncology Practices? The Ongoing Issue of Nonadherence to This Standard of Care for Older Adults With Cancer In the article that accompanies this ...

A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...

Many patients demonstrate impairment in several of the domains described above. Problems with managing medications, nutrition and driving are a consequence of many medical and functional impairments, ...

In this secondary analysis of the ECOG-ACRIN E2906 study, researchers assessed vulnerabilities of AML patients aged 60 years or older and their affect on survival outcomes.

A brief version of the traditional Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in primary care and community health settings could identify older adults with unmet needs or geriatric syndromes, but it doesn’t ...

Predicting treatment risk using geriatric assessment and genetic profiling for AML may impact early rates of mortality among patients aged 60 years or older. Geriatric assessment showed a high rate of ...

Identifying limitations in functional reserves in the older adult leads to improved decision-making related to cardiovascular risk stratification and elective procedures. Management of elderly ...

Older individuals generally place high value on 'aging in place' – maintaining independence and remaining in their own home. [1] If maintaining this function is the focus of care for the older patient ...