Patients with mild cognitive impairment were 80% more likely to die over a 6-year period than cognitively normal patients.
The risks were significantly elevated for both patients with amnestic and...
ORLANDO – The bad news about antidepressant therapy for patients whose first episode of depression occurs in late life is that the randomized trials show it’s no better than placebo. The good news is...
ORLANDO – Do SSRIs actually work for late-life generalized anxiety disorder?
"I think the answer is, ‘Yes, a little.’ The benefits are limited in the randomized controlled trials and in my own...
ORLANDO – Transition to an assisted-living facility or nursing home is a period of high risk for suicide among the elderly – as well as an opportunity for preventive intervention.
That was the key...
WASHINGTON – A collaborative care program that supports both Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers saved an Indiana health care system more than $1 million during its initial yearlong test period.
The...
Hospitalists who care for dementia patients near the end of life are much less likely to introduce a feeding tube than other physicians who follow such patients.
Compared with nonhospital...
WASHINGTON – During the last year of life for community-dwelling elders, up to three-fourths of hospital visits might have been avoidable.
Nursing home residents also were susceptible to potentially...
LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...
ORLANDO – The mortality risk associated with prescription of antipsychotics or valproic acid for behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia is considerably greater than previously estimated,...
ORLANDO – Right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy at six times the seizure threshold is markedly more effective in severely depressed patients aged 60 and older than in those who are younger,...
