Findings from three methods to identify falls in hospitals: results from the Ambient Intelligent Geriatric Management system fall prevention trial - Visvanathan R, Lange K, Selvam J, Dollard J, Boyle E, Jones K, Ingram K, Shibu P, Wilson A, Ranasinghe DC, Karnon J, Hill KD.
OBJECTIVE: To (a) compare characteristics of patients who fall with those of patients who did not fall; and (b) characterise falls (time, injury severity and location) through three fall reporting methods (incident system reports, medical notes and clinici... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Complications arising from dental trauma incurred from falls involving geriatric patients: a case report - Arroyo Bote S, Bennasar Verges C, Ribas-Perez D, Rodriguez Menacho D, Villalva Hernandez-Franch P, Barbero Navarro I, Casta ño Séiquer A.
Elderly patients have a high incidence of falls that result in facial injuries. Many cases present with dental crown fractures and soft-tissue lacerations. The initial diagnosis is especially important in this type of dental trauma, since an initial error ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Repeat fall risk in geriatric patients after fall-induced head trauma - Alter SM, Knopp BW, Solano JJ, Hughes PG, Clayton LM, Shih RD.
Introduction There are many known risk factors for falls, with poor health and physiologic decreases in function as the major contributors to fall risk in older adults. However, risk factors for repeat falls after initial ED discharge are not well-describe... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Wake Forest University School of Medicine receives $495,000 to study visual impairment in older adults
Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received $495,000 from the Doris Duke Foundation to provide mentored research funding and time protection to early career physician-scientists to help them advance clinically significant research.
Dr. Atalie Thompson, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, was awarded the grant to look at the feasibility of low-cost screening to help detect visual impairment in older … (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - October 14, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: news
Falls at the interface between geriatric and psychiatric patients: a critical review from a psychopharmacological perspective - Wedmann FM, Conca A, Di Gregorio P, Florio V, Toscano M, Giupponi G.
Falls in the elderly represent one of the major clinical problems as they are serious events that often result in high residual disability and mortality rates. Knowledge on the subject derives mainly from geriatric and gerontopsychiatric research. However,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
‘ Hospital at Home ’ Could Be the Future of Health Care. Not Everyone Thinks It ’ s a Good Idea
In July 2022, Rudie Watzig collapsed. The diagnosis was as serious as it was unexpected—cirrhosis of the liver—and it landed him in the intensive care unit for what he considered a period of sheer torture. “I hated it. I hated being in the hospital,” says Watzig, 44, of Portland, Oregon. “Not seeing my kids … not having my wife there … not having my nice Purple mattress to sleep on.”
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So imagine his chagrin when he was again rushed to the emergency room a few months later, this time for breathing problems due to fluid buildup ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsay Lyon Tags: Uncategorized Health Care Source Type: news
Trauma (excluding falls) in the older adult - Burton KR, Magidson PD.
Trauma in the older adult will increasingly become important to emergency physicians hoping to optimize their patient care. The geriatric patient population possesses higher rates of comorbidities that increase their risk for trauma and make their care mor... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
COACH Intervention May Reduce Instances of Elder Mistreatment
FRIDAY, Oct. 6, 2023 -- A remotely delivered caregiver intervention may be effective at preventing elder mistreatment, according to a pilot study published online Oct. 4 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Zachary D. Gassoumis,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 6, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
7 Signs You're Aging Well, According To Geriatricians
Doctors reveal what they look for when examining a patient's longevity and how you can adopt the behaviors for yourself. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
7 Signs You’re Aging Well, According To Geriatricians
Doctors reveal what they look for when examining a patient's longevity and how you can adopt the behaviors for yourself. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Physical health, economic status, social relations, and depression among Chinese older adults: a structural equation modelling analysis - Yu Y, Hu X, Hu H, Chen QW.
This study aims to test an integrated model of physical health, economic status, social relations, and geriatric depression, and in particular to examine the stress-buffering role of social relations on the negative psychological effects of declining physi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
The prevalence of elder abuse and its association with frailty in elderly patients at the outpatient department of a super-tertiary care hospital in northern Thailand - Choksomngam Y, Petrungjarern T, Ketkit P, Boontak P, Panya R, Wongpakaran T, Wongpakaran N, Lerttrakarnnon P.
The objective... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Taking My First PALTC Steps
There is a sense of completeness in caring for older adults. I get to help them later in life, just like they helped me growing up. My grandparents and I lived under one roof for the first 18 years of my life. As I helped them with minor tasks around the house and grew comfortable caring for older adults, my comfort zone in medicine unconsciously began to take shape. It was inevitable that someday I would pursue becoming a geriatrician. Eastern Virginia Medical School allowed me to grow through a combined program in internal medicine and geriatrics. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - September 29, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Kanishk Sharma Tags: Foundation Futures Source Type: news
Protecting Older Adults from Harm Takes Vigilance
Back in 2007, an old friend called me for some advice about his father. I have known Brian since college. We were roommates in graduate school. He got his MBA at Wharton while I was in medical school. Our kids are the same age. He lives in my old hometown of Baltimore, MD. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - September 29, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jerald Winakur Tags: Meditations on Geriatric Medicine Source Type: news
Diabetes Medications for Prevention of Dementia Diabetes Medications for Prevention of Dementia
In this editorial, the authors make a case for repurposing drugs with pleiotropic metabolic and geroprotective properties for the prevention of dementia.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
