Most Elderly Don't Get Good Medical Care: Study
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MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- The quality of care received by vulnerable elderly Medicare, Medicaid patients is barely acceptable, a team of U.S. researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Elderly, sick or disabled men  and women who rely primarily on their spouse for care are more  likely to be to be screamed at, threatened or otherwise  subjected to potentially harmful behaviors than those whose  care is not provided by a spouse, new study findings show.
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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
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More elderly Americans are contracting  diabetes and the majority develop complications such as heart  disease that might be prevented if they properly monitored  their health, a researcher said on Monday.
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More than one fifth of elderly people feel they are living in poverty and 28% say their lives have got worse, a survey says.
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Elderly black men are only 50 percent as likely to get tested for prostate cancer as elderly white men are, says a study in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine.
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(HealthDay News) -- Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, getting too much sleep, and lack of quality sleep are common problems for the elderly.
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Elderly and ill blacks in the United  States are more likely to live in poor-quality nursing homes,  researchers said on Tuesday in a study that shows clear  patterns of segregation persist.
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Americans spend double what people in other industrialized countries do on health care, but have more trouble seeing doctors, are the victims of more errors and go without treatment more often, according to a report released on Thursday.
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A new study presents stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- An intensive, home-based program to improve medical care for low-income seniors produced mixed results, a geriatrics team reports.
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More than a third of Chinese people who fall ill do not go to a doctor because they cannot afford to, a survey finds.
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Men are much less likely than their wives, sisters and mothers to see a doctor, according to a 2000 study by The Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based nonprofit that supports research on health and social services issues.
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Patients aren't the only ones harmed by medical errors, according to a survey released Wednesday that found many doctors who make mistakes &#151; and even those who come close &#151; suffer stress, sleep problems and loss of confidence.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly.
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Less than half of the nation's communities have begun preparing to deal with the needs of the elderly, whose ranks will swell dramatically with the aging of the baby boomers, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Some elderly Americans simply stop taking their prescribed drugs when insurance plans cease paying for them, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.