A four-physician geriatrics practice would lose $122,520 a year, the group estimated. For those practices, the cuts could mean laying off nurses and clerical workers.Doctors are lobbying Congress to ...

Thirty-five years ago, Jerry Gurwitz was among the first physicians in the United States to be credentialed as a geriatrician — a doctor who specializes in the care of older adults. "I understood the ...

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 ...

Doctors specializing in geriatric medicine warned Tuesday that their ranks are dwindling even though the older population will double by 2030. Two groups - the American Geriatrics Society and the ...

Jerry Gurwitz was one of the first doctors to receive the designation as a geriatrician. He’s now the chief of geriatric medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Recently, he ...

Predictors of frequent geriatric users of the emergency department indicate that a multidisciplinary approach to care is required. In geriatric patient populations, predictors of high emergency ...