Where You Live Can Shape How Alzheimer ’ s Affects You
The FDA in mid-July for the first time ever approved an Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi. The annual price-tag will run patients $26,500. The same week, the Alzheimer’s Association for the first time ever released county-level data to identify which communities are most struggling with the disease.
6.7 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease and 134,000 of them will die because of it each year. We’ve known these aggregate numbers for a while now, but with new data and new drugs, healthcare specialists can now better target attention and resources.
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Source: TIME: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeremy Ney Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Geriatric spine fractures - demography, changing trends, challenges and special considerations: a narrative review - Sunder A, Chhabra HS, Aryal A.
The aim of this manuscript was to summarize the demography and changing trends of geriatric spinal injuries and to enumerate the challenges and special considerations in the care of geriatric spinal injuries. PubMed, Scopus and Embase databases were search... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
The geriatric patient one year after trauma: palliative performance scale predicts functional outcomes - Fiorentino M, Hwang F, Pentakota SR, Glass NE, Livingston DH, Mosenthal AC.
INTRODUCTION: Frailty in trauma has been found to predict poor outcomes after injury including additional in-hospital complications, mortality, and discharge to dependent care. These gross outcome measures are insufficient when discussing long-term recover... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Geriatric pharmacotherapy case series: the pharmacist's role in preventing elder abuse - Gurvich T, Lang A.
Elder abuse encompasses many types of abuse, including physical, sexual, emotional, neglect, and financial abuse. Abuse, including neglect and exploitation, is experienced by about 1 in 10 people aged 60 and older who live at home.(1) However, this is like... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
A Hive Mind of Doctors Can Mean Better Care for Patients
If you’re like an unlucky 5% of American adults, you’ll visit a doctor with a medical complaint this year, only to be misdiagnosed and, often, misprescribed a treatment. If you’re like a far less lucky one of 100,000 hospitalized Americans, such a misdiagnosis will cost you your life. There are a lot of reasons for medical errors: inexperienced caregivers; ambiguous symptoms; understaffed hospitals, underlying conditions.
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But according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), there’s one more little...
Source: TIME: Health - July 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Current Strategies in Managing Geriatric Hip Fractures Current Strategies in Managing Geriatric Hip Fractures
This article discusses a multidisciplinary approach.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Orthopaedics Journal Article Source Type: news
Predictors of mortality in patients with geriatric trauma in the emergency service - Hakkoymaz H, Gedik MS, Kilci A, Okyay RA, Solak Y.
OBJECTIVE: In our study, it was aimed to compare the power of trauma scores (Glasgow Coma Score, Revised Trauma Score, Abbreviated Injury Scale, Injury Severity Score, and Trauma Score-Injury Severity Score) in order to predict mortality in patients with g... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, and Delirium in the ICU ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, and Delirium in the ICU
Might the use of ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in patients admitted to intensive care units be protective against delirium?Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Critical Care Journal Article Source Type: news
ASCO Urges Geriatric Assessments for Older Cancer Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Updated recommendations from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) re-emphasized the importance of conducting geriatric assessment (GA) for older cancer patients and promoted a new tool to streamline their use.
The... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - July 18, 2023 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
Alzheimer ’s trial shows clear benefits and significant risks of Eli Lilly antibody
On the heels of the historic full U.S. approval of the Alzheimer’s therapy lecanemab, a similarly acting drug has also demonstrated some effectiveness against the brain disorder, albeit with potentially greater risks, according to detailed clinical trial data released today by its maker, Eli Lilly and Co. The experimental therapy, donanemab, is a monoclonal antibody that mops up a protein called beta amyloid, which accumulates in the brains of people with the disease and is associated with its progression. Both it and lecanemab appear to modestly slow the cognitive decline that marks Alzheimer’s, making them the first ...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 17, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Diagnostic accuracy of frailty screening instruments validated for use among older adults attending emergency departments: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Moloney E, O'Donovan MR, Sezgin D, Flanagan E, McGrath K, Timmons S, O'Caoimh R.
Early identification of frailty can prevent functional decline. Although multiple frailty screens exist for use in Emergency Departments (EDs), few are validated against diagnostic standards such as comprehensive geriatric assessment. To examine the diagno... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Implementation of geriatric screening in the emergency department using the consolidated framework for implementation research - Southerland LT, Gulker P, Van Fossen J, Rine-Haghiri L, Caterino JM, Mion LC, Carpenter CR, Cardone MS, Hill M, Hunold KM.
We report final implementation results and sust... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Disparities in Dealing With the Elder Abuse Epidemic Disparities in Dealing With the Elder Abuse Epidemic
This study aimed to identify factors associated with interventions against suspected physical abuse in older adults. Are there disparities in the management of these victims in US trauma centers?Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Emergency Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
Elder Abuse: Warning Signs to Watch Out for During Care Elder Abuse: Warning Signs to Watch Out for During Care
A gerontologist describes potential indications of elder abuse and reviews the appropriate steps to take in response to suspected abuse.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
Nursing home workers at Autumn Lake facility in Baltimore vote to unionize amid complaints of hourly pay
A union organizer previously told the Baltimore Business Journal that geriatric nursing assistants made less than employees at other nursing homes. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - July 7, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Phil Davis Source Type: news
