Are Centenarians Successful Agers? Evidence From China Are Centenarians Successful Agers? Evidence From China
This study assesses the degree to which centenarians age successfully in China.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
American Geriatrics Society 2023 Beers Criteria Highlights American Geriatrics Society 2023 Beers Criteria Highlights
A 2023 update of the Beers Criteria was released in May 2023 after panel review of more 1500 clinical trials and research studies published since the last update.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
The prognostic value of the Geriatric Index of Comorbidity for predicting an outcome in patients over 60 years of age with polytrauma: retrospective cohort study - Valieva RI, Zadneprovskiy NN, Ivanov PA.
Background Nowadays, since the older people are keeping and increasing their professional and social activity, the risk of injury in these patients is escalating. However, the results of polytrauma treatment among patients over 60 years old are worse than ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
US Clinicians' Perspectives on ACP for Persons With Dementia US Clinicians' Perspectives on ACP for Persons With Dementia
This paper examines clinician ' s perceptions of the value of, barriers to, and successful strategies for completing advance care planning for persons with dementia.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
Evaluation of the risk factors for falls in the geriatric population presenting to the emergency department - Torun E, Az A, Akdemir T, Solako ğlu GA, Açıksarı K, Güngörer B.
BACKGROUND: We evaluated risk factors and frailty assessments to identify fall-prone geriatric patients in the emergency department (ED). METHODS: This prospective study included 264 consecutive patients aged ≥65 years who presented to the ED. Th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Geriatric trauma, frailty, and ACS trauma center verification level: are there any correlations with outcomes? - El-Qawaqzeh K, Magnotti LJ, Hosseinpour H, Nelson A, Spencer AL, Anand T, Bhogadi SK, Alizai Q, Ditillo M, Joseph B.
INTRODUCTION: It remains unclear whether geriatrics benefit from care at higher-level trauma centers (TCs). We aimed to assess the impact of the TC verification level on frail geriatric trauma patients' outcomes. We hypothesized that frail patients cared f... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Believing Myths About Aging Makes Growing Old Worse
In this study, a positive mindset toward aging—meaning, “I’m excited about the possibilities in the second half of my life, and I believe my best days are ahead of me”—translated into an extra eight years of healthy longevity. Nor is this just a one-off result. This finding shows up again and again, and is now one of the most well-established facts in the field.
The implications? Changing your mindset toward aging has as much impact on longevity as quitting smoking, and more impact than losing weight, even if you’re obese.
And this matters—a lot.
If you treat people in the...
Source: TIME: Health - August 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Steven Kotler Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Decision-making About Dialysis: Beyond Just Dialysis or Death Decision-making About Dialysis: Beyond Just Dialysis or Death
In detailing the personal journey of an older kidney failure patient and his experiences on dialysis, this article aims to illustrate the challenges and complexity of dialysis decision-making.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
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
