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A research team that includes Dr. Dae Hyun Kim has received funding for a project that will use non-invasive, whole room, body heat sensors in an attempt to detect frailty in older adults while they...

BOSTON – Older adults benefit from enhanced partnerships between health care systems and affordable housing sites. These partnerships improve health care outcomes while reducing unnecessary spending...

BOSTON – A new study published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) found that modifying a well-established and highly successful delirium prevention program for use when in-person or...

A new perspective article published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology has highlighted that screening and treatment of osteoporosis lags behind other diseases, resulting in significant morbidity...

For older adults, a hospital admission or major surgery includes risk of developing delirium — a complication not only marked by confusion or agitation, but also associated with prolonged...

New research examines one-year health-care costs associated with delirium in older hospitalized patients with and without Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias that have not been examined...

New research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has presented preliminary experimental evidence that EEG and TMS–EEG measures of cerebral oscillatory activity and cortical...

Boston, MA – The Successful Aging after Elective Surgery (SAGES) II study has been launched as a 5-year prospective observational study of 400-420 community dwelling persons, age 65 years and older...

BOSTON – A new study published in The Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences found a link between depression, diet, and the development of frailty. Frailty, defined as a recognizable state of...

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director of the Deanna and Sidney Wolk Center for Memory Health and a Senior Scientist at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew...