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The holiday season can be a joyous time of the year for families and friends, near and far. But the events of the last two years and the aging of the baby boomer genre have placed us all in very unique circumstances. As joyous as the holiday season can be, it can also be stressful and tiring, especially for our elderly. We would like to share a few inspirations to help you deal with this holiday season.
The holiday season is meant for families, but it is also a …
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The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program, supported by the Centers for Disease Control, tracks data from a representative sample of hospital emergency departments (EDs). This dataset was recently analyzed1 to reveal the circumstances of injurious falls and the assistive devices that were involved, yielding estimates that:
Each year in the US there are 47,312 nonfatal fall injury ED visits associated with the use of canes and walkers by people 65+ years of age; 60% of these happen at home.
The injuries sustained in these falls are serious with …
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Below is a list of the top 50 hospitals in America that excel at and focuses on treating geriatric patients developed by US News and World Report. While Arkansas is not currently listed, the medical center is working to change that with new grant money. You can read about the project here.
Best Geriatric Care Hospitals
1. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
2. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
3. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
4. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
5. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
6. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
7. …
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reports results from analyses of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project-Nationwide Emergency Department Sample regarding ED visits among elderly adults who were coded as sustaining both a fall and an injury. Starting from the vantage point of the ED these analyses highlight the importance of our efforts to reduce falls and illuminate how injurious falls contribute to human suffering, ED overcrowding, hospital costs, admission to long term care facilities as well as private and government health care spending. Having sustained …
