Dementia May Be Underdiagnosed in States With Motor Vehicle Reporting Mandates
(MedPage Today) -- Mandating clinicians to report drivers with dementia may be associated with missed or delayed dementia diagnoses, a cross-sectional study of primary care providers suggested.
Clinicians in states that required them to report... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - April 26, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Medicare Warnings Stop Nursing Homes From Overusing Antipsychotic Meds
FRIDAY, April 25, 2024 -- Warning letters sent by Medicare officials can prompt a decline in antipsychotic prescriptions for seniors with dementia, a new study finds.Letters sent to heavy prescribers of quetiapine (Seroquel), the most popular... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 26, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Nutritionist reveals the 15 'superfoods' to eat to slash risk of silent killers
We could lower our risk of blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and dementia with these dietary changes. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
When It Comes to Deactivating Pacemakers at the End of Life, Intention Is at the Heart of the Matter
Lisa is a retired (and fictional) social worker and mother of three adult children. For the past year, she has experienced recurrent hospitalizations for behavioral disturbances related to dementia. After each discharge, her family notices she is frailer and more confused. Reflecting on an advance directive Lisa had created five years earlier, her oldest daughter notes that Lisa wouldn ’t have wanted life-sustaining therapies if she were so confused that she couldn’t recognize her family. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - April 26, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: Joshua Briscoe Tags: Medical Ethics Source Type: news
Loneliness and Heart Disease: What the Literature Tells Us and What We Can Do to Help
Of the many things we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, one valuable lesson is that loneliness has a tremendous impact on health. Loneliness has been linked to a number of medical conditions in older patients, including depression, dementia, and heart disease. Loneliness, defined as “being without company,” is the subjective feeling of being socially isolated. A person can be alone without feeling lonely, just as one can have social support and yet still report feeling lonely. As part of the special section on Heart Disease and Matters of the Heart, we present recent litera ture on the impact of loneliness on heart d...
Source: Caring for the Ages - April 26, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: Casey Rust, Seifu Tulu Source Type: news
Does Severe Aggression in Dementia Increase Mortality Risk?
Severe aggression in individuals with dementia may lead to greater mortality risk, research from Belgium suggests. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - April 26, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey S. Eisenberg Source Type: news
Warning Letters Safely Lowered Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia
(MedPage Today) -- Overprescribing warning letters modestly cut the use of antipsychotic medications without apparent repercussion in people with dementia, a secondary analysis of a randomized trial indicated.
Compared with primary care physicians... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - April 25, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Why lashing out in your sleep may be a sign you'll develop DEMENTIA or Parkinson's within the next 15 years
Violently acting out threatening dreams suggests progressive decay in the brain, according to a neuroscientist Dr Rahul Jandial. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Robotic misinformation in dementia care: emotions as sense-making resources in residents' encounters with robot animals - Persson M, Thunman E, Iversen C, Redmalm D.
Robot animals, designed to mimic living beings, pose ethical challenges in the context of caring for vulnerable patients, specifically concerning deception. This paper explores how emotions become a resource for dealing with the misinformative nature of ro... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Common heartburn drugs taken by millions 'increase the risk of agonising migraines'
Previous research has also linked the drugs to dementia, experts warned. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Effectiveness of the online-based comprehensive cognitive training application, Smart Brain, for community-dwelling older adults with dementia: a randomized controlled trial - Chae HJ, Lee SH.
BACKGROUND: The fourth industrial revolution has brought about developments in information and communication technologies for interventions in older adults with dementia. Currently, most interventions focus on single interventions. However, community-dwell... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
PM's dementia adviser quits over benefits clawback
Johnny Timpson says the government is failing to protect vulnerable people by not intervening earlier. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Global consortium to study Pick's disease, rare form of early-onset dementia
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Pick's disease, a neurodegenerative disease of unknown genetic origin, is a rare type of frontotemporal dementia that affects people under the age of 65. The condition causes changes in personality, behavior and sometimes language impairment. In patients with the disease, tau proteins build up a nd form abnormal clumps called Pick bodies, which restrict nutrients to the brain and cause neurodegeneration. The only way to diagnose the disease is by looking at brain… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 24, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Experts reveal the six foods that slash your risk of diabetes, cancer and dementia
They also warned against some popular foods that can have the opposite effect. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Are UK health systems dementia ready? Comparing dementia policy across the four nations of the UK
This report highlights the growing challenge of diagnosing people with dementia in the UK. By 2040 the number of dementia cases is set to rise to 1.5 million as the population ages. The research, sponsored by Lilly, finds that if there is no progress in improving diagnosis rates then over half a million people with dementia will be undiagnosed by 2040, nearly a quarter of a million more than today. Currently an estimated 850,000 people have dementia in the UK, with 315,000 people undiagnosed. The report finds that current dementia diagnosis rates across the UK vary significantly. Without a diagnosis, dementia patients are ...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 23, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news
