Study looks at functional decline in older patients after hospitalisation

Motivation and expectation may be factors in helping older adults regain lost functional ability after hospitalisation, say researchers with the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Centre and UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham). In findings published in March in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers found that patients hospitalised for surgery returned to normal baseline function more quickly and more completely than did patients hospitalised for illness...

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