CDC: More than a quarter of seniors fall each year
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 13, 2020
About 27% of adults aged 65 and older said they’d fallen at least once in the past year. And more than 10% were injured as a result, the latest data shows.
Diabetes overtreated in older adults at end of life, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 25, 2020
Diabetes appears to be overtreated in nearly 44% of recently admitted VA nursing home residents, including those with limited life expectancy and/or advanced dementia.
Blood coagulation issues and other COVID-19 manifestations can cause sometimes unavoidable skin injuries that appear to be pressure wounds. Clinicians should be aware of this when diagnosing and reporting...
Diabetes linked to hip and non-vertebral bone fractures
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 14, 2020
Bone density and bone strength assessments should be a routine part of diabetes care, say researchers.
PPE shortage reported by one-fifth of nation’s nursing homes
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 11, 2020
A slow and incomplete federal response is largely to blame, investigators claim.
Clinical Briefs for Thursday, June 11
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 10, 2020
Fully 20% of people with hearing aids do not use them, a new study finds … NIH: Smoking more than doubles stroke risk in African Americans … A senior living exec with COVID-19 has a message for providers:...
Feds: Emergency department visits increase with age of nursing home residents
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 04, 2020
While residents aged 60 to 69 were found to account for 2% of ED visits, those aged 90 and older accounted for 24% of visits, according to new data.
Nursing homes more prepared for the coronavirus than for H1N1: survey
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 26, 2020
Despite the COVID-19 troubles currently facing eldercare facilities, things could have been much worse for some, a Michigan survey suggests.
Dementia diagnosis often means death within five years, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 20, 2020
More than half of adults diagnosed with dementia die within five years – signaling a need for informed conversations about care, say researchers.
Seniors who use video chat less likely to report symptoms of depression
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 07, 2020
Seniors who communicated via video chat were about half as likely to report depressive symptoms than those who did not, say researchers.