Dually enrolled Medicare-Medicaid older adults are a vulnerable population. We tested House's Conceptual Framework for Understanding Social Inequalities in Health and Aging in Medicare-Medicaid enrollees by examining the extent to which disparities…
Bone and joint alterations were characterized in the skeletons of 498 individuals age 64+ who died in Northeast Ohio between 1913 and 1933. Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, rare in young individuals, was found in 27% of men over age 65,…
Heart failure (HF) is highly prevalent among older patients in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). HF outcomes for SNF patients suffer because of many factors, including staff training, lack of physician availability, and failure to implement…
Age-related hearing loss may result, in part, from declining levels of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) in the aging inferior colliculus (IC). An upregulation of the GABA(A)R gamma(1) subunit, which has been shown to increase sensitivity to GABA,…
Student Presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American-Geriatrics-Society (AGS). NEOMED Student K. B. Yerigeri. Co-presented with students from Johns Hopkins University
Student presentation D77 at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American-Geriatrics-Society (AGS). NEOMED Student A. Walia. Co-presented with students from the Center for the Study of Asian American Health, New York University School of Medicine,…
