Medline recalls 1.5 million bed rails after long-term care deaths … Mediterranean diet associated with one-fifth lower relative risk of mortality … Study: Traumatic brain injury strikes 1 in 8 older...
Study examines long COVID definitions, care models and future directions
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Donna Shryer
May 27, 2024
As COVID-19 continues to make its presence known, the world remains unclear about the sometimes-debilitating condition known as long COVID. There is no standardized definition and existing definitions...
Research shows effects of low back pain on older adults’ overall health and well-being
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Donna Shryer
May 27, 2024
New research has unlocked insights into how low back pain, a common musculoskeletal disorder, can have detrimental effects on the overall health and well-being of older adults.
Summer book release explores AI as a companion to offset loneliness
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Donna Shryer
May 27, 2024
With an international epidemic of loneliness, artificial Intelligence, or AI, may offer technology-based social interaction and companionship. That’s according to robotics expert Tony Prescott, a professor...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, May 28
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Donna Shryer
May 27, 2024
New funding available for research aiming to cure chronic diseases in aging population … Care quality important when COVID-19 hospitalizations surge … Raising Medicare age eligibility comes with a...
Blood pressure drugs linked to higher fracture risk in nursing home residents
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Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
New evidence indicates that older adults taking blood pressure medications have more than double the risk of bone fractures. The findings come from Rutgers Health researchers, who analyzed data from nearly...
Life expectancy to increase around the world, study predicts
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Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
The new Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021 forecasts a near five-year increase in global life expectancy by 2050, but it also highlights threats, such as obesity and high blood pressure, that could...
Technology helped older adults stay connected during pandemic, small study finds
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Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic changed almost everyone’s social calendar, with meet-ups moved to video chats, office collaboration happening over communication apps, and social media replacing lunch with a friend....
Clinical briefs for Monday, May 20
By
Donna Shryer
May 18, 2024
Study: HRT may improve pulmonary hypertension in women … Identifying a distinction between Alzheimer’s and long COVID symptoms … Recommended type 2 diabetes drug for older patients may reduce cancer...
Study: Nursing home residents benefit from expanded nurse practitioner role
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Donna Shryer
May 12, 2024
Nurse practitioners (NPs) increasingly are providing more primary care to nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and a recent study examined the potential impact...