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.
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...
Report: Monoclonal antibodies for dementia lack clear benefits, show risks
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 23, 2024
Even though amyloid-reducing monoclonal antibodies (MABs) are on the market and some research shows they may treat Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, a new research review found there aren’t clear benefits...
Complex medication regimens may be risky for dementia patients at home, study finds
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John Roszkowski
Mar 26, 2024
Complex medication regimens may be risky and burdensome for community-dwelling older adults suffering from dementia or mild cognitive impairment. Providers should look for ways to reduce overprescribing...
Pandemic lessons learned need to apply to future dementia care in nursing homes: editorial
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 02, 2024
An editorial in response to a 2023 study about caring for people with dementia during the pandemic highlights some of the ongoing issues in nursing home care quality that became prominent during the outbreak...
Cirrhosis could be culprit in 1 of 10 dementia diagnoses, research finds
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 01, 2024
Veterans in whom dementia is diagnosed may not have a lifelong disease at all. Instead, they may have a reversible cognitive decline caused by advanced liver disease, according to a study published Wednesday...
Living with dementia: ‘Nothing about us without us’
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Charles de Vilmorin
Feb 29, 2024
We can talk endlessly about people living with dementia, but the conversation only becomes meaningful when they are active participants in the conversation. During the recent 2024 Validation World...
Doctor sounds alarm on quality, efficacy of Alzheimer’s supplement
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 27, 2024
When it was sold as a prescription generic drug, galantamine was labeled accurately and it wasn’t contaminated. But that wasn’t the case when galantamine was sold as an over-the-counter dietary supplement,...
Report: Caregivers, healthcare workers struggle to navigate dementia care
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 21, 2024
People caring for those with dementia — who include family members and healthcare workers — say it’s hard to navigate the disease within the US health system, according to the Alzheimer’s Association...
Race, ethnicity help determine which controllable risk factors for dementia have biggest impacts
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 18, 2024
Controllable risk factors that factor into Alzheimer’s or dementia cases play varying roles based on someone’s race and ethnicity, a new study shows.