In a study of nursing home patients, apathy was linked with an increased risk of dying over a 4-month period, even after controlling for depression. The study also found that apathy was present in half of nursing home patients.
Aug 9, 2017
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The vast majority of older adults receive long-term care at home, not in nursing homes. But few people plan for this expense.
Aug 2, 2017
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In a new study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR), and the Rutgers University School of Nursing examined the factors influencing the likelihood ...
Jul 24, 2017
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In the largest nursing home study to date on the effect of a high dose (HD) flu vaccine, researchers found that vaccines with four times the antigen of standard flu (SD) vaccines significantly reduced the risk of respiratory ...
Jul 20, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found serious gaps in communication between physicians and home health care agencies responsible for caring for often elderly patients discharged from ...
Jul 19, 2017
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For the first time ever, researchers have looked at the long-term use of psychiatric medication in Norwegian nursing homes. Psychiatric drugs are a collective term for medicines used to treat mental disorders, such as antipsychotics, ...
Jul 7, 2017
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A startup based on University of Helsinki research offers solutions for the interaction problems that arise from memory disorders.
Jul 6, 2017
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A new study published in The Gerontologist finds that states could save tens of millions of dollars—and help more Americans with dementia remain in their communities—if their caregivers took part in a program designed ...
Jul 5, 2017
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Persons living with dementia don't have sex. Or they have weird sex. Or they have dangerous sex, in need of containment.
Jul 5, 2017
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Off-label use of antipsychotic medications to treat patients with dementia has reduced dramatically in recent years due to education programs warning of increased risk of death. However, those campaigns have not focused on ...
Jun 26, 2017
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