Family members of older adults value early dementia risk information provided by clinicians, a new study finds. When interviewed about their post-disclosure reactions, some said the knowledge prompted them to change their own behavior and begin stepping into new care roles.
The Milken Institute has identified key ways to engage direct care workers in improving timely dementia detection and diagnosis.
Medicare’s dementia claim measures appear to have become more sensitive in recent years, agreeing more closely with hospital-based measures overall and for certain populations than in the past, investigators say.
“The idea that we could be entirely done with testing in the post-vaccine world is probably not a good one right now,” says a well-known neuroscientist.
A primary care toolkit for brain health assessment and dementia diagnosis has gotten a much-needed update as more research points to the potential for better outcomes with earlier diagnoses, the authors and reviewers say.
Suicide attempts are more likely in newly diagnosed individuals, according to a new study. The authors urge clinicians to connect patients to a variety of supportive services.
The need for stepped-up infection control measures likely will remain a necessity for the foreseeable future, say industry observers and stakeholders.
The update includes 19 recommendations in six key areas of asthma diagnosis, management and treatment. Several new features aim to help clinicians put the recommendations into practice, and the stepwise treatment tables have been refreshed.
Missed bill payments and lowered credit scores may be evident years before a dementia diagnosis, a new study shows. Earlier diagnosis could help protect patients’ financial well-being, investigators say.
Almost a third of older emergency department patients who were subsequently diagnosed with COVID had delirium at admission, investigators say. And many had no other COVID symptoms, such as cough or fever.
