For an excruciating 16 minutes as the woman moaned in agony, Amanda Fraser – the woman’s home health aide – held the knife ...

Fraser allegedly plunged a chef's knife with an 8-inch blade into Wilson's torso "and repeatedly whispered for the woman to succumb." The post 'Stop fighting it': Home health aide crawled into elderly ...

An "X-ray car" is being tested out by healthcare staff in a bid to prevent elderly eople going to hospital unnecessarily. The ...

Cardiology can learn lessons from geriatric medicine on how to look at the big picture and involve patients in the process.

A home health aide accused of trying to kill a sleeping 84-year-old woman with a chef's knife has been indicted for attempted ...

The modern healthcare system operates on a fundamental belief that more testing equals better care, especially for older adults. This approach, while well-intentioned, has created an unexpected crisis ...

Amanda Fraser, 23, has been indicted on attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 84-year-old Long Island patient with a ...

A seven-year study of 470 patients revealed that a severe fungal lung infection once mainly seen in specific high-risk groups ...

The prevalence of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) in the elderly is not uncommon, and a movement from female predominance toward a lower female-to-male ratio in HS was seen, possibly indicating an ...

A nurse who stole more than £6,000 from an elderly patient with dementia has been jailed for 18 months. Police said Rexy ...

Fixed-duration Venclexta plus Gazyva produced longer remissions than chemoimmunotherapy in elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and other comorbidities. Elderly patients with previously ...

"Physicians are often accused of providing too much care to elderly patients at the end of life, but there's evidence that these patients also get far too little care before reaching that point," a ...