Family availability impacts formal, informal dementia care
Sep 08, 2021
Receipt of informal care up, while formal care use is lower for those with dementia and disability with greater family availability
Global dementia cases projected to top 152 million in 2050
Jul 29, 2021
Increases in cases mainly due to population growth and aging, with relative importance of these factors varying by region
Rehospitalization in dementia patients tied to nurse continuity
Jun 28, 2021
Wide variation seen in continuity of nursing staff for home health care visits to dementia patients following hospitalization
Transforming eldercare through therapeutic light
By
Tord Wingren
May 26, 2021
Elders in skilled nursing facilities spend most of their time indoors. However, the need for healthy light increases with age as the pupil gets smaller and the eye’s lens thickens, requiring even more...
Dementia-related psychosis featured in March 24 webinar
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 17, 2021
Looking to better understand how dementia-related psychosis might affect residents? Broaden your perspective during a McKnight’s disease-awareness webinar providing an overview of hallucinations and...
A new perspective on age-old, old-age issues
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2021
For nearly a decade, my freelance writing career included plenty of articles about chronic wounds, payment reform and pretty much anything else skilled-nursing related. Surely, I thought, I’d mastered...
Words Matter: Changing the way we talk about people living with dementia
By
Mimi DeVinney
Oct 19, 2020
Language is important. Whether we realize it or not, the way we speak about people reflects our beliefs about them and ultimately affects how we treat them. Whether we are aiming for a community-wide...
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, June 26
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 25, 2019
Drug combo may combat deadly candida auris … Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted research progress for decades … Can deprescribing drugs reduce dementia risk? … NIH study: Optimal threshold for diagnosing...
Broad class of drug linked to 50% higher risk of dementia in older adults
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 24, 2019
A class of drug commonly prescribed to treat everything from depression to Parkinson’s disease may raise long-term risk of dementia by as much as 50%.
It’s not all in your head: Heart problems may raise risk of dementia
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 18, 2019
Heart problems – specifically atrial fibrillation and coronary heart disease – are tied to an increased risk of dementia, according to two new studies.