Quick Take: Association of hearing loss with dementia
With an increasing prevalence of dementia in the elderly population and treatment strategies limited to improving symptoms, there is a ...
Tag: geriatrics
Poor blood pressure control from mid- through late-life increases dementia risk
1. In this prospective cohort study, patients with midlife hypertension and either late-life hypertension or hypotension had higher risks of ...
Quick Take: Physical activity trajectories and mortality
While numerous studies have previously examined associations between physical activity and mortality, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, the majority of ...
Quick Take: Suicide in older adults living in or transitioning to residential long-term care, 2003 to 2015
It is estimated that by the year 2050, 1 in 5 individuals will be 65 years or older. In addition ...
Poor olfaction linked to increased mortality in older adults
1. In this prospective cohort study, poor olfaction was associated with mortality in older adults 2. Poor olfaction was an ...
Collaboration between EMS and primary care physicians could reduce unnecessary emergency transport for fallen seniors
1. Increased collaboration between emergency medical services (EMS) and primary care physicians could decrease frequency of unnecessary transportation to the ...
Nearly half of potentially preventable Medicare spending focused on frail elderly patients
1. High-cost frail elderly persons account for almost half of the potentially preventable Medicare spending. 2. The greatest amount of ...
Antibiotics often overprescribed in elderly patients
1. Almost half of elderly patients received an antibiotic prescription for a non-bacterial acute upper respiratory infection (AURI. 2. Patients ...
Review suggests use of standard rather than intensive blood pressure treatment in the elderly
1. In adults ≥60 years of age with a chronic systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≥150 mm Hg who are otherwise ...
Post-myocardial infarction beta-blockers improve mortality but may decrease function in elderly nursing home patients
1. In this propensity-matched retrospective cohort study, elderly nursing home residents who used beta-blockers after an acute myocardial infarction, especially ...
