Tag Archives: elderly patients

Dutch doctors withhold or withdraw treatment in a substantial proportion of elderly patients, reveals research published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Half of the elderly residents surveyed in a public nursing home in Ireland have said that they did not want to be resuscitated in the event of a cardiac arrest, with more women than men choosing this option, a new study has revealed.

By Gary Culliton.

Dear Editor, I have been based in Co Laois for the past three-and-a-half years as a general practitioner and am concerned with the reducing care for our elderly patients in the community.

Ahead of eHealth week in Dublin in May, Catherine Reilly examines one initiative from Spain that uses Microsoft’s motion-sensing input device Kinect for its Xbox to monitor the health of elderly patients in their own homes.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

By June Shannon.

The public perception that pursuit of dialysis is always in patients’ best interests should be replaced by a more realistic view of the “sad truth” about early dialysis initiation in elderly patients, argues Dr Steven J Rosansky of the Dorn Research Institute, William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in the US.