Boosting staff alone does not improve outcomes for nursing home residents with dementia, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 10, 2024
Adding more staff members isn’t enough to improve quality of care and outcomes for people in nursing home facilities that have a lot of residents with dementia, according to a study out of University...
Study: Joint surgery not linked to excess memory decline
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 10, 2024
Older adults commonly have a decline in how they perform on neuropsychological tests after a total joint arthroplasty like a hip or knee surgery. A new study found that people who undergo the operations...
Report guides docs on how to deliver Parkinson’s diagnosis news
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 10, 2024
Not every doctor knows how to deliver a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, but a new framework is trying to ensure they do.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Jan. 10
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 10, 2024
COVID-19 slides out of top 5 telehealth diagnoses … American Red Cross pleads for blood donations … Researchers find Alzheimer’s biological variants … Report: Eating more plant foods could lower...
Study: Updated COVID vaccine is 71 percent effective against hospitalization for older adults
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 09, 2024
A new study exploring how well the updated COVID-19 vaccines worked in people over the age of 60 had some promising results.
Noncardiac surgeries don’t raise dementia risk, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 09, 2024
Elective surgeries aren’t associated with a higher rate of dementia among older adults, according to a new study published Jan. 2 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Test to detect Parkinson’s shows promise, report says
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 09, 2024
Similar to how researchers are coming up with biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s and related dementias, a team of investigators are working on a blood test to detect Parkinson’s disease.
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Jan. 9
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 09, 2024
Weight loss surgery could slow cognitive decline, study finds … Gene discovery has potential to prevent hearing loss … Mobile app use could reduce tinnitus … Florida gets FDA approval to import cheaper...
Alzheimer’s disease drugs can lower macular degeneration risk
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 08, 2024
Ccetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) used to treat Alzheimer’s disease may lower the risk for developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a study published last week in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Outdoor spaces linked to better mental, physical health in older adults
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 08, 2024
Access to the outdoors — think gardens, bodies of water or trails — reduced the chance that older people rated their health poorly. That is according to a report published this month in Health & Place.