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Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a process used by healthcare practitioners to assess the status of people who are frail and older in order to optimize their subsequent management. These people often have complex, multiple and interdependent problems ( multimorbidity ) which make their care more challenging than in younger people, or ...
Gallup surveyed 1,001 people and published the results in August. Many respondents' regrets came from circumstances largely out of their control, from a cancer diagnosis disrupting financial ...
Reasons include increased specialization and technology. In the 1990s, team home care, including physician visits, was a small but growing field in health care, for frail older people with chronic illnesses. The reasons for fewer house calls include concerns about providing low-overhead care in the home, time inefficiency, and inconvenience.
Colon cancer in young people. Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women under age 50, TODAY.com previously reported. Experts remain uncertain as to why this type of cancer ...
Sculpture in a park with a theme of cancer survivorship. A cancer survivor is a person with cancer of any type who is still living. Whether a person becomes a survivor at the time of diagnosis or after completing treatment, whether people who are actively dying are considered survivors, and whether healthy friends and family members of the cancer patient are also considered survivors, varies ...
James Van Der Beek fought back tears as he described how his wife has supported him through his cancer treatment. The Dawson's Creek star, 47, opened up to Good Morning America in his first live ...
Gerontology (/ ˌ dʒ ɛr ən ˈ t ɒ l ə dʒ i / JERR-ən-TOL-ə-jee) is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging.The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903, from the Greek γέρων (gérōn), meaning "old man", and -λογία (), meaning "study of".
New lung cancer screening guidelines issued by the American Cancer Society (ACS) on Wednesday call for annual testing with low‐dose computed tomography (CT) for anyone aged 50 to 80 who was ...