FPN || Geriatric Medicine

Nursing home-onset C. difficile infections cut wide swath

Posted on: 14/12/2014 - 20:35

PHILADELPHIA – Clostridium difficile infections among nursing home residents resulted in some 31,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths nationally in 2012, population-based surveillance data...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Diabetes in midlife raises dementia risk

Posted on: 01/12/2014 - 22:00

Adults with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes in midlife had greater cognitive decline over the next 20 years than did people without diabetes, according to the findings from a large prospective cohort...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Medicare beneficiaries in hospice care get better care, have fewer costs

Posted on: 20/11/2014 - 20:47

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries suffering from poor-prognosis cancer who received hospice care were found to have lower rates of hospitalizations, admissions to intensive care units, and...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Increased Alzheimer’s risk with long-term benzodiazepine use

Posted on: 17/11/2014 - 20:59

BERLIN – Chronic use of benzodiazepines by elderly patients is associated with a 43%-51% increased risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 5-10 years later, according to a large case-control...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Vaccine slashes odds of flu hospitalizations for older adults

Posted on: 04/11/2014 - 17:55

PHILADELPHIA – Receiving a flu shot cut the odds of influenza hospitalizations by 56% among older adults during the 2010-1011 flu season, surveillance data show. Vaccine effectiveness was...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Three-minute assessment detected most cases of delirium

Posted on: 20/10/2014 - 22:00

A shortened version of the Confusion Assessment Method took 3 minutes to administer and identified...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Drink more coffee to prevent a second BCC

Posted on: 12/10/2014 - 16:53

AMSTERDAM – Liberal coffee consumption was independently associated with a reduced risk of developing a second basal cell carcinoma in individuals who’ve already had a first in an analysis from the...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

Drink more coffee to prevent a second BCC

Posted on: 12/10/2014 - 16:53

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Exposure-based therapy found superior for seniors with complicated grief

Posted on: 02/10/2014 - 15:57

About 70% of older adults with complicated grief improved with targeted exposure-based counseling, compared with 32% who underwent interpersonal therapy, according to <a...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

ACIP recommends PCV13 for all adults 65 and up

Posted on: 23/09/2014 - 21:52

All adults who are 65 years or older should receive 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) routinely in series with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23), according to a...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

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