Model shows how new staff approaches can better serve residents with hearing loss, dementia
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 12, 2024
A new report highlights a model to implement behavior-change techniques to better support long-term care residents with hearing loss and dementia.
About 30 percent of older adults who need care are caring for another
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 13, 2024
More than 30% of older adults who are caregivers are also receiving care to assist with completing their own daily activities. The older adult caregivers are also more likely to care for a spouse, be older...
Study: Positive feedback — not just negative — improves workplace culture
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Kristen Fischer
Sep 21, 2023
Healthcare organizations should focus on what worked — not just what went wrong — when giving feedback to staff, according to a new study. Centering feedback on positives could help organizations including...
Older adults, docs spar on tapering off opioids, report shows
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 08, 2024
The way older people with chronic pain view opioid use differs from the way their primary care doctors see it, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
Amyloid buildup, small vessel disease tied to cognitive function in older adults with type 2 diabetes
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 05, 2024
Scientists don’t have all the answers when it comes to understanding the link between diabetes and cognitive decline, especially when it comes to biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease.
Long COVID linked to cognition, memory problems: report
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 06, 2024
A new study is quantifying the harms of long COVID, showing that people with lingering symptoms of it can have cognitive deficits equal to losing intelligence quotient, or IQ, points.
Older adults — especially with frailty, dementia — likely to be readmitted after surgery
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 01, 2024
Older adults who have a major surgery have a higher risk for being readmitted to the hospital within 180 of a procedure. The risk is even more so if the person is frail or has dementia, according to a...
More antibiotics didn’t prevent joint replacement infections, trial reveals
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Kristen Fischer
Oct 19, 2023
Doctors typically give the antibiotic cefazolin to people who have knee and hip replacements in order to prevent infection. Some physicians have debated if adding another antibiotic — vancomycin — ...
A new study offers a promising way for patients to relieve knee pain with self-administered acupressure (SAA), an ancient practice rooted in traditional Chinese medicine. Researchers found the technique,...
Report: Doctors doling out antifungal creams at high rates, causing drug resistance
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 16, 2024
Doctors in the United States are prescribing antifungal creams at rates so high they could be contributing to the rise of drug-resistant infections, new research shows.