Hospital units tailored to older patients can help prevent decline

Nurse specialist Annelie Nilsson checks on patient Janet Prochazka, during her stay at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, after Prochazka took a bad fall in March. (Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News)
Until March of this year, Janet Prochazka was active and outspoken, living by herself and working as a special education tutor. Then a bad fall landed her in the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Doctors cared for her wounds and treated her pneumonia. But Prochazka, who is 75,