Vanderbilt Center For Quality Aging

Patients who suffer a longer duration of delirium in the intensive care unit are more likely to experience long-term disability after discharge. Read More

A program launched by Schnelle in January 2013 aims to reduce readmissions for Medicare patients transferred from Vanderbilt University Hospital to any of 23 area skilled nursing facilities, or SNFs. The specific goal is 17 percent reduction, by 2015, in 30-day hospital readmissions directly from these SNFs. Read More

The Bluebird at Belmont, an event featuring singer-songwriters in celebration of Belmont Village Green Hills’ 14th anniversary, is scheduled for Oct. 24. All proceeds will go to the Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging. Read More

The Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging is taking the “bench to bedside” concept of translational research out into the community, forming partnerships with assisted living facilities to examine how evidence can be put into action to improve the care of elders. Read More

Registration is now open for the 2012 Geriatric Update Conference for primary care, allied health and related professionals. The conference is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at the Gladys Stringfield Owen Education Center at Baptist Hospital, located at 21st Avenue North and Patterson Street… Read More

The 2012 Geriatric Update Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at the Gladys Stringfield Owen Education Center at Baptist Hospital. This conference is designed to meet the educational needs of primary care and allied health professionals working with geriatric patients and to… Read More

(iStockphoto) Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development and the Center for Quality Aging present a Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group lunchtime lecture on psychosis, agitation and their management with psychotropic medications. Harry Gwirtsman, associate professor of psychiatry and an expert in… Read More

Cathey Norton, a physical therapist at the Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute at Vanderbilt’s Bill Wilkerson Center, will present “Vestibular Deficits and Vestibular Rehabilitation” from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, in Light Hall, Room 214. Feel free to bring your lunch to this Geriatrics and Gerontology… Read More

Image courtesy of Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development and the Center for Quality Aging present a Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group lunchtime lecture on bariatric and metabolic surgery for the elderly. The talk will be… Read More

Associate Professor of Medicine James Powers will present "Alzheimer's Disease 2011." Read More