Seniors with Alzheimer’s who take antipsychotics hospitalized more frequently
Seniors with Alzheimer’s disease who are prescribed antipsychotics spend 53% more days hospitalized than those not taking antipsychotics.
Hospitalizations
Clinical Briefs for Tuesday, November 5
Weight loss counseling, low carb diet improves diabetes outcomes … Hospitalizations may hasten cognitive decline in the elderly … Psychotherapy for depression may be cost-effective over time … Heavy smoking causes faces to look older
Behavioral health challenges pose higher hospitalization risk than dementia, study finds
Nursing facility residents with behavioral health disorders are more likely to be hospitalized than residents with dementia, say researchers.
Overtreatment lands thousands of U.S. diabetes patients in the hospital
Too many older, clinically complex patients with diabetes end up in U.S. emergency rooms due to overtreatment, according to a Mayo Clinic study published this month.
Medication adherence can reduce hospitalization risk, study finds
Medication adherence may help keep residents out of the hospital, according to a new investigation of adults age 50 and older.
Aquatics program are worth a deep dive
We made the decision to invest in a robust aquatics program. Many of our facilities offer therapy pools with integrated underwater treadmills and resistance jets.
Test could confirm sepsis within an hour
Nursing home residents might benefit from a new way of diagnosing and treating sepsis made possible by discoveries out of the University of British Columbia.
Shortchanging the Older Americans Act has led to unnecessary nursing home placements, senators say
Chronic underfunding of the Older Americans Act is leading to unnecessary long-term care facility admissions, Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and 26 of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate said in a recent letter to Appropriations Committee leaders.
Large number of hospitalizations could be prevented for cognitively impaired residents on feeding tubes, researchers find
Residents of long-term care facilities who are cognitively impaired and on feeding tubes have high numbers of potentially preventable emergency room visits and hospitalizations, according to newly published research findings.
First-generation antipsychotic use correlated to hospitalization, study finds
Elderly patients taking antipsychotics should be carefully monitored, especially after they first start taking the medication, due to a higher risk of hospitalization, a new study finds.
