Tag: aging

The informative lecture series, "UR Always Learning at The Highlands," returns for fall 2009 with a program intended to be stimulating and thought-provoking.

Studies show that older adults in underserved and rural communities bear a disproportionate share of illnesses and disabilities compared to their counterparts in urban areas. But a University of ...

Caring for the aging in a challenging economic environment will be a focus as more than 250 health care professionals gather October 15 to 17 at the Hyatt Regency Rochester for the 37th annual ...

A Wine Tasting and Silent Auction benefit will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at The Highlands at Pittsford to support innovative care aimed at improving the quality of life for residents with ...

Just as it is important to know the stage of cancer at diagnosis, a new study proposes that older people with cancer should be further classified or “staged” into subgroups based on other health ...

Stephen L. Kates, M.D., director of Geriatric Fracture Center, Highland Hospital, and the department of Orthopaedics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, will present a free talk from 4 to ...

Geriatrics experts at the University of Rochester Medical Center are urging the medical community to consider developing a new specialty to meet the needs of nursing home residents. “Nursing Home ...

People with follicular lymphoma are treated in a wide variety of ways depending on their physician’s preference and the region of the country that they live, according to scientists at the University ...

When an emergency squad pulls up to the home of an elderly person in distress in upstate New York, chances are the paramedics have received a new brand of high-tech training using a video podcast, ...

Jeffrey M. Lyness, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been elected president of the American Association ...