A senior man of African descent is indoors in a hospital room. He is watching his female doctor using a tablet computer. She is explaining a medication schedule to him. Today in the U.S. there are ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- As people age, they often need more medical care and they often need specialists. However, there's one specialist that not enough senior citizens see - a geriatrician. Just as ...

Q. I am concerned about my father who is 83 years old. He is sometimes forgetful and confused, unsteady on his feet, sleeps a lot and periodically is withdrawn. Add to that he doesn’t like doctors.

A geriatrician has expert training in the medical care of older adults, whose physiology, function and what matters to them is not the same as with middle-aged adults. This is an important question to ...

For months, Teresa Christensen’s 87-year-old mother, Genevieve, complained of pain from a nasty sore on her right foot. She stopped going to church. She couldn’t sleep at night. Eventually, she ...

It wasn't just one or two people who asked me if I knew Dr. Parsons, an old school physician and geriatrician who has practiced medicine for almost 40 years, caring not only for older patients, but in ...

At what age should you see a geriatrician? The easy answer is, there’s no easy answer. Merriam-Webster defines a geriatrician as a specialist in geriatrics, which in turn is defined as a branch of ...