Fall-prevention efforts in emergency departments could benefit older adults once they return home

6 March 2026

Falls are among the most frequent reasons older adults seek care in emergency departments, and many of these patients are sent home on the very…

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Novel Domestic Intervention May Decrease Emergency Hospital Visits Among the Elderly

14 March 2025

A groundbreaking service designed to support older adults who are beginning to experience frailty has the potential to significantly reduce emergency hospital admissions by more…

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Alcohol Consumption in Elderly Doubles Risk of Brain Hemorrhage Due to Falls

24 August 2024

Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries in older adults across the United States, also topping the charts for traumatic brain…

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Study Finds Higher Healthcare Costs Linked to Unplanned Utilization Among Patients with Cognitive Impairment

8 July 2024

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine utilised population-based Singapore Chinese Health Study data. They discovered that individuals…

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Closing the Care Gap: CU Anschutz Researchers Aim to Enhance Heart Disease Treatment for Women

1 July 2024

Researchers from the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research have recently published a significant paper in the Journal for Women’s Health Research, highlighting critical…

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Early Management of Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke: Balancing Benefits and Risks

24 June 2024

New research highlighted at the 10th European Stroke Organisation Conference in Basel, Switzerland and concurrently published in the New England Journal of Medicine underscores the…

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Reconsidering the Care of Patients Admitted for Social Reasons

23 June 2024

The categorisation of vulnerable hospital patients as “socially admitted” has been identified as potentially obstructing their medical treatment, as indicated by recent research published in…

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