The Stages of Alzheimer ’s Disease
  Eberhard Grossgasteiger   The only certainty, when diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, is that a senior’s condition will progressively worsen. The national Alzheimer’s Association has developed a very useful staging system to use as a frame of reference when coping with AD. Alzheimer's disease constantly keeps doctors, family members, and caregivers on their toes. It is instinctive for humans to want a roadmap or some sort of guide to help get us through a journey or a difficult situation. We strive to know what lies ahead to help ensure that we are adequately prepared. Following a serious medical diagno...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 20, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Is It Normal to Grieve Before Someone Dies?
I remember watching my parents age in a normal fashion. I’d occasionally look at them and be startled by the realization that they were getting older, but that was all I acknowledged. I never consciously dwelled on the fact that they would continue to decline and eventually I would lose them. I didn’t want to. These things did, however, linger in the very back of my mind. Then one day my dad underwent brain surgery to correct an old injury he sustained in World War II. It was made clear to us that without this operation, he would eventually suffer from severe confusion. Unfortunately, though, the surgery was unsuccess...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 19, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Hospice Care: Help During End Stages of Life
Each time I walked into Dad’s room in the nursing home, he would be rigid in bed, propped up on one elbow and slamming his other fist against his upturned palm. Pow! Pow! Pow! Over and over, he pounded fist against hand. I would try to get him to relax and lie back down, but he couldn’t comprehend my pleas. Pow! Pow! Pow! He was trying to knock out the pain. Dad had resided in this nursing home since botched brain surgery that was supposed to correct the results of a brain injury, he’d sustained in World War II. He went into this surgery foggy from fluid building up behind scar tissue in his brain. While the procedu...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 17, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Unrealistic Promises Complicate Caregiving
   Photo credit: Claudia Soraya ...Back when our loved ones were younger and healthier, many of us promised in good faith that we would never put them in a nursing home. Doing so would be unthinkable—like abandoning them in their time of need. So, we naively pledge to care for them ourselves until the very end. We assure them that they’ll be able to live out their remaining years at home with family tending to their needs. ...This is admirable yet unrealistic thinking. Recent research shows that the average duration of caregiving is a whopping 4.5 years. As time goes by and our loved ones’ care ne...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 16, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

An In-depth Look at Constipation from the Causes to the Consequences
   Photo credit Sora Shimazaki ...When Is Constipation Serious in Elderly Individuals? “Constipation is a very common health concern affecting people of all ages, but particularly the elderly,” explains Kim English, RN, BScN, MN, professor at the Trent/Fleming School of Nursing in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. “There is a stereotype of older people focusing on the function of their bowels. That may not be a bad thing, but the reality is that we all experience episodes of constipation at some point of our lives.” The medical definition of constipation is when a person has less than 3 bowel...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 15, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –10th September, 2022.
This article is adapted fromVoices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made,out Sept. 8 from Russell Sage Foundation Press.In May 2021, I got a call I never expected. I was working on abook about A.I. ethics, focused on the algorithm that gives out kidneys to transplant patients in the United States. Darren Stewart —a data scientist from UNOS, the nonprofit that runs the kidney allocation process—was calling to get my take: How many decimal places should they include when calculating each patient’s allocation score? The score is an incredibly important number, given it determines w...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Newest Digital Health Programs Address Digestive Disease Management
The following is a guest article by Bill Snyder is CEO of Vivante Health. More than 70 million Americans suffer from a wide gamut of digestive diseases, but until recently few digital health solutions were available to help them manage their conditions. There are smartphone apps for tracking everything from exercise, sleep and calorie consumption to blood pressure, COVID-19 symptoms and even diabetes management, but gut health has largely been left in the digital dust – in part because there is no one-size-fits-all solution for a category spanning so many different disorders. Today that’s changing as health tech compan...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Bill Snyder Digital Health Employer Health GI Health GIThrive Healthcare Personalization Healthcare Sensors Vivante Health Source Type: blogs

The Best Way To Reduce Stomach Bloating
How to reduce heartburn, stomach pain, diarrhoea, constipation and bloating. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Stomach bloating Source Type: blogs

The Vitamin That Reduces Stomach Bloating
The vitamin helps easy many symptoms of IBS, which include abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation and bloating. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Stomach bloating Source Type: blogs

Medical Librarian Research Contributions to Guidelines Improves Patient Care
Doctors, nurses, and other members of the patient care team are faced with problems on a daily basis. Some of these problems are easier to solve than others. Some of these require more research to better understand and solve the problem. Clinical guidelines require research to find the highest quality of evidence with the most current, relevant data to determine the appropriate standard of care. Medical librarians are experts at providing that type of research. In today’s post on a librarian’s impact in hospitals and patients, I would like to present the research done by a librarian at the Oncology Nursing S...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - April 5, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Gastrointestinal Pressure Sensor Inspired by Incan Communication Technology
Researchers at MIT have designed a gastrointestinal pressure sensor that is inspired by the ancient Incan practice of quipu, which involves adding knots to a length of string to record information. The knotted string approach has been put to good use by these MIT researchers, who discovered that introducing knots into an inexpensive gastrointestinal pressure sensor they had developed increased its sensitivity. Gastrointestinal motility issues underlie various GI conditions, but current techniques to measure gastrointestinal pressure are cumbersome and expensive. This new approach provides an inexpensive sensor ...
Source: Medgadget - March 30, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: GI Source Type: blogs

Painless Nasogastric Tube Placement
​A 6-year-old boy presented with intermittent abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Because his abdominal examination was unremarkable, the pain intermittent, and constipation a possibility, we provided an enema along with an abdominal pain workup but no radiographs. His pain improved, the abdominal labs were unremarkable, and the child tolerated an oral fluid challenge after treatment with ondansetron.The mother was advised at discharge to return if she became concerned about her child's condition. They did return a few hours later for increased vomiting and abdominal pain. A CT scan demonstrated multiple dilated loops ...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

Hey Siri, How Do I Say “ Appendicitis ” in Hungarian?
by Vincent LaBarca, DNP, NP-C Back in 2017, before Americans were considered a biohazard due to the country’s poor handling of COVID-19, I was bumming around Central Europe. Tracing the Danube, I was in Budapest, chowing down on bowls of goulash in between gulps of crisp pilsner. The night before taking a train to Slovenia, my stomach started feeling some kind of way. I evaluated my symptoms as I would any patient’s. Probably just indigestion or constipation from the goulash, I thought.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 20, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Cultural Featured Posts Health Disparities Health Regulation & Law Justice Public Health Social Justice Vulnerable Populations interpretation language Source Type: blogs

Hey Siri, How Do I Say Appendicitis in Hungarian?
by Vincent LaBarca, DNP, NP-C Back in 2017, before Americans wereconsidered a biohazarddue to the country’s poor handling of COVID-19, I was bumming around Central Europe. Tracing the Danube, I was in Budapest, chowing down on bowls of goulash in between gulps of crisp pilsner. The night before taking a train to Slovenia, my stomach started feeling some kind of way. I evaluated my symptoms as I would any patient’s. Probably just indigestion or constipation from the goulash, I thought.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 20, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: COVID-19 pandemic Cultural Featured Posts Health Disparities Health Regulation & Law Justice Public Health Social Justice Vulnerable Populations interpretation language Source Type: blogs

The Vitamin That Reduces Stomach Bloating
The vitamin helps easy many symptoms of IBS, which include abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation and bloating. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - September 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Stomach bloating Source Type: blogs