Researchers developed the Advocacy-Adjustment Dyad, a new clinical framework designed to foster therapeutic partnerships between nurses and older adults with cancer in the intensive care unit.

A new model of care aimed at geriatric patients may work for ICU patients, too. (Getty/monkeybusinessimages) () Intensive care unit patients often have complex needs following discharge, and a recent ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --Many older people undergoing treatment in hospital cardiac intensive care units have other health problems, take multiple medications for these conditions and may be frail or have ...

Older adults who go to the emergency department with cognitive impairment, a change in disposition plan from admit to discharge, low blood pressure and elevated heart rate were more likely to be ...

Quality of life (QoL) in older patients (pts) with cancer and prognostic factors for QoL decline.

Some people have heard of the ICU but don’t fully understand what goes on in an intensive care unit. Read on to learn more about these specialty hospital wards that help treat severe cases and provide ...

Elderly emergency department patients with a few key symptoms are at particular risk for intensive care admission or death in the hospital, according to a new study published in the Annals of ...