Social activity can prevent cognitive decline in some nursing home residents, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 20, 2024
Participation in social activities can offer some protection against cognitive decline among those in long-term care communities, according to a report published Tuesday in the Journal of Alzheimer’s...
Frailty needs to be a factor in drug development, proposed guidelines suggest
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 20, 2024
A new report on strategies for geriatric drug development and assessment determined that drugs need to consider age as well as other factors that older adults face such as cognitive impairment, frailty...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, March 20
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 20, 2024
Parkinson’s therapy can include video games, study finds … Spotting biomarkers in middle age can predict older age brain health … No higher stroke risk in days right after COVID-19 shot among older...
Clinicians working in nursing homes provide better end-of-life care: study
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
Clinicians who work at skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes can be crucial to improve the quality of end-of-life care for residents, according to a new study.
Group issues new bill of rights for people with Alzheimer’s disease
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
Voices of Alzheimer’s, a nonprofit organization, recently created a bill of rights for people living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Program continues to develop future aging researchers
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) Program is an initiative cultivating the next generation of researchers in aging in order to help older adults boost their physical function,...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, March 19
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
Flu still elevated in US while COVID-19, RSV declining … Test could prevent drug interactions … Medicare gaps keep weight loss drugs from older adults … Social frailty linked to pneumococcal infections...
AARP: 4 years later, COVID-19 still rages in nursing homes
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
Even as nursing home cases and deaths related to COVID-19 are declining, a recent analysis finds the virus is still wreaking havoc in long-term care settings.
Nursing homes turn away people recovering from opioid addiction, report finds
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
Skilled nursing facilities in Rhode Island got the attention of Americans with Disabilities Act advocates when they refused to admit people coming out of hospitals after treatment for opioid addiction,...
Report endorses adding more nursing home residents in clinical trials, shares framework to do so
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
A commentary published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on March 14 talks about the need for clinical trials among people living in nursing homes.