IMN || Geriatric Medicine

ECT quells dementia-associated agitation

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 13:10

ORLANDO – Electroconvulsive therapy was safe and effective for treatment of refractory agitation in patients with dementia, including those with multiple medical comorbidities, in the largest case...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Vortioxetine establishes credentials for late-life depression

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 21:25

ORLANDO – The novel antidepressant vortioxetine proved safe, effective, and well tolerated for treatment of major depressive disorder specifically in elderly patients in a combined analysis of nine...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Say goodbye to ‘dementia’

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 18:50

ORLANDO – This May, the hallowed term "dementia" is supposed to be tossed onto the scrapheap of discarded psychiatric nomenclature, replaced by "major neurocognitive disorder."...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Late-life depression can be dementia prodrome

Posted on: 26/03/2014 - 14:05

ORLANDO – Elderly patients with acute depression who show deficits on brief structured tests of memory and executive function are at high risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease within the next few...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Half of stroke survivors returned to driving

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 15:40

SAN DIEGO – Only 6% of 162 stroke survivors underwent a formal driving evaluation, but 51% returned to driving within a year,

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Hoarding: Not just a symptom of OCD

Posted on: 24/03/2014 - 21:05

ORLANDO – Compulsive hoarding traditionally has been considered virtually synonymous with obsessive-compulsive disorder, but its reach actually extends far beyond. Indeed, hoarding turns out to be...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

USPSTF: Evidence still ‘insufficient’ to back cognitive impairment screening

Posted on: 24/03/2014 - 21:00

Citing an ongoing lack of data about the benefits and harms of screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has left unchanged the recommendations of its 2003 guidelines on cognitive impairment...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

New cholesterol guidelines would add 13 million new statin users

Posted on: 20/03/2014 - 22:20

Strict adherence to the new risk-based American College of Cardiology–American Heart Association guidelines for managing cholesterol would increase the number of adults eligible for statin therapy by...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

New cholesterol guidelines would add 13 million new statin users

Posted on: 20/03/2014 - 22:20

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Frailty assessment central to TAVR decision

Posted on: 19/03/2014 - 18:05

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in nonsurgical candidates with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis carries a hefty price tag of $116,500 per quality-adjusted life-year gained...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

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