Starting well before Independence in 1948, and over the ensuing six decades, Israel has
built a robust, relatively efficient public system of health care, resulting in good health …

Israel is a high-income country with an advanced health system and universal health-care
insurance. Overall, the health status has improved steadily over recent decades. We …

Aging is progressive physiological degeneration and consequently declined function, which
is linked to senescence on both cellular and organ levels. Accumulating studies indicate that …

Objective: To test the hypothesis that in surgical patients≥ 70 years, preoperative cognitive
impairment is independently associated with postoperative delirium. Background …

Traditional care models are unlikely to sustain the escalating growth in patient needs and
health-care costs in high-income economies. Digital medicine innovation holds promise to …

Early on, geriatricians in Israel viewed with increasing alarm the spread of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID‐19). It was clear that this viral disease exhibited a clear predilection …

Comprehensive care through family medicine can enhance the approach to multimorbidity,
interprofessional collaboration, and community care, and make medical care more …

Family medicine is vital in Japan as its society ages, especially in rural areas. However, the
implementation of family medicine educational systems has an impact on medical …

Purpose: This viewpoint discusses a plausible framework to educate future speech-
language pathologists (SLPs) as socially responsive practitioners who serve and advocate …

Background: Cognitive impairment is a common condition in older people, and age-related
cognitive symptoms may progress to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia. Physical …