Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. The population of older Americans is exploding, but there’s a shortage of the very doctors trained specifically to treat them ...

Jerry Gurwitz was one of the first doctors to receive the designation as a geriatrician. He’s now the chief of geriatric medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Recently, he ...

Thirty-five years ago, Jerry Gurwitz was among the first physicians in the United States to be credentialed as a geriatrician — a doctor who specializes in the care of older adults. "I understood the ...

The geriatrics specialty was unable to attract enough future doctors to its fellowship programs this year even as more students graduate medical school and the demand for geriatricians grows with the ...

Older people are not simply younger people with wrinkles — our bodies change dramatically as we age, both inside and out, and some parts wear out before others, unpredictably, sometimes several parts ...