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Geriatric rehabilitation also have a role in intermediate care, where patients are referred by a hospital or family doctor, when there is a requirement to provide hospital based short term intensive physical therapy aimed at the recovery of musculoskeletal function, particularly recovery from joint, tendon, or ligament repair and, or, physical ...
UnitedHealth Group is being sued for allegedly using an artificial intelligence algorithm to systematically deny elderly patients rehabilitative care.. The class action lawsuit, filed Tuesday in ...
The aims of the project were to reduce unnecessary treatment and overuse, and introduce an option to patients of "doing nothing". [71] At the campaign's launch, Malhotra stated that over-diagnosis and over-treatment is "the greatest threat to our healthcare system". [72]
Perioperative functional status can be difficult to predict because many elderly patients have reduced preoperative function as a consequence of deconditioning, age-related disease, or cognitive impairment. This makes it difficult to adequately assess the patient's ability to respond to the specific stresses associated with
The sum includes refunds of more than $3.3 million for 479 customers, most of whom were "older or disabled adults" who had been "sold expensive, unproven stem cell products."
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Deconditioning is adaptation of an organism to a less demanding environment, or, alternatively, the decrease of physiological adaptation to normal conditions. Deconditioning can result from decreased physical activity , prescribed bed rest , orthopedic casting , paralysis , aging .
As a physician and researcher who works with elderly patients daily, I want them to have access to options that would relieve their chronic pain without the risk of addiction. But access is the ...