While the obesity crisis is still considered the foremost public health epidemic in the west, one often overlooked condition is quickly becoming a growing concern. Malnutrition, sometimes referred to as under-nutrition, affects ...
Jan 24, 2020
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Suicide among nursing home residents is a major concern. Between 2000 and 2013, around 140 Australian nursing home residents took their own lives.
Jan 21, 2020
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The home hospital model of care—in which select patients receive hospital-level care for an acute illness from the comfort of their own home instead of in a traditional hospital—has become increasingly popular across ...
Dec 16, 2019
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Myths about healthy water drinking may be putting older people's health at risk by discouraging them from drinking enough fluid to stay healthy, according to a new UCL-led study.
Dec 13, 2019
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A.I. researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a system that can detect when a person is eating and calculate how many carbohydrates they are consuming with unprecedented accuracy and speed. The work provides ...
Nov 12, 2019
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For many people with dementia, memories of early childhood appear more vivid than their fragile sense of the present. But what happens when the present is experienced through a different language than the one spoken in childhood? ...
Nov 12, 2019
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A new study finds that the community in which one lives influences whether they receive postoperative care and rehabilitation after elective hip replacement surgery in a facility or at home. An analysis of a large regional ...
Nov 12, 2019
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care and Safety wasn't supposed to make any recommendations in its interim report. Yet it identified three key areas where immediate action should be taken.
Nov 06, 2019
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Older adults who are recovering from heart failure often leave the hospital to stay at rehabilitation facilities (also called skilled nursing facilities) before they return home. However, healthcare practitioners know that ...
Nov 04, 2019
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A large study analyzing 107,000 knee replacement surgeries found that African Americans were significantly more likely than white patients to be discharged to an inpatient rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility rather ...
Oct 30, 2019
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