Risk Factor

People with dementia are not more likely than their same-age peers to develop severe COVID-19 or die from the disease — but they are more likely to experience delirium, according to a new study.

The findings could help clinicians better identify high-risk individuals, say investigators.

Although long-term care organizations successfully distribute drugs to patients every day, their processes for getting rid of the waste associated with those medications may sometimes fall short, exposing...

Three-fifths of long-stay nursing home hospitalizations could have been avoided, according to a new study. The majority of the avoidable hospitalizations were for infections, injuries and congestive heart...

Diabetics are at risk of developing dementia earlier and dying sooner, according to research in the American Journal of Epidemiology.