Sentence examples for geriatric research from inspiring English sources

Dr. Sunderland ran a geriatric research unit at the National Institute of Mental Health.

The difference in survival is "absolutely huge," said Dr. Bartke, director of geriatric research at the university's medical school.

As early as 1985, Dr. Williams urged that a "critical mass of faculty members" in every medical school be devoted to geriatric research and teaching.

Less than one-third of the $3.46 billion in aging research reported this fiscal year is channeled through the National Institute on Aging, nominally the main center for geriatric research.

Dr. Ladislav Volicer, an expert on dementia and the director of geriatric research at the E. N. Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Mass., said the best solution to the problems described by Dr. Morrison might be to keep patients with dementia out of acute-care hospitals and let them stay in their homes or nursing homes, even with a broken hip or pneumonia.

Use of these alarms has increased "over the past 10 or 15 years as the problems of physical restraints and bed rails became better known," said Ronald Shorr, who directs geriatric research at the V.A. Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla. "This was the next wave in fall prevention".

In particular, as people grow older, the use of such coping strategies seems to become more prevalent and potentially more beneficial [ 8, 12, 13], one more reason not to assume that findings of non-geriatric research in this area are generalizable to older women.

In an accompanying editorial in Neurology, Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, director of geriatric medicine research at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, said that differences between the sexes are "no small thing" and noted they raise interesting questions because women tend to have a higher risk of dementia than men.

The findings underscore a geriatric health research and policy needs.

In geriatric care research, Jette et al. have identified distinct concepts shared by activity and participation[ 31].

This paper aims to describe the trend and pattern of geriatric health research publications, and to review the current geriatric health policies in Nigeria.