SNFs kept up ‘remarkable’ level of rehab during pandemic, Harvard study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 06, 2023
Despite caring for a sicker patient population and higher staff turnover, skilled nursing facilities provided post-acute rehabilitation services with only a modest decline in intensity, investigators say.
VA’s narrative medicine program improves senior patient care, docs’ study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 25, 2023
Physicians said that the practice of narrative medicine changed how they framed patient decisions and helped them to guide seniors toward appropriate care.
High-dose flu shot protects better against virus, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Dec 19, 2023
Good news for people who received a high-dose recombinant influenza vaccine this year. The vaccine offers more protection against flu than an egg-based standard-dose vaccine for older adults aged 50 and...
FDA grants full approval of Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi
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Liza Berger
Jul 07, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late Thursday granted full approval of the early Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi (lecanemab), opening up long-awaited broad Medicare coverage of the medication shown to...
Medicare costs could rise by $5B annually with expanded Alzheimer’s drug coverage: study
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Alicia Lasek
May 12, 2023
Medicare costs could rise by $2 to $5 billion a year if CMS expands its coverage for newly approved Alzheimer’s disease drug Leqembi (lecanemab), investigators say.
This board game shows what dementia is really like — and it’s no game at all
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Kristen Fischer
Oct 02, 2023
A new board game highlights the challenges that people face receiving dementia care and aims to get people talking about how to improve it.
Report: Older adults living solo with cognitive impairment need more support
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 21, 2023
A new study gives more insights into how healthcare professionals view living arrangements when they are caring for people with cognitive impairment. On the whole, more interventions are necessarily to...
Medicare’s outpatient knee replacement policy tied to more surgeries, less access: study
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 06, 2023
Medicare’s 2018 policy change supporting outpatient total knee replacement may have led to more surgeries and higher costs, while unintentionally limiting access to older, Black and female patients,...
Positive perception of aging linked to memory recovery, Yale study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 12, 2023
Older adults who have absorbed positive beliefs about aging from their culture are 30% more likely to recover normal cognitive function after experiencing mild cognitive impairment, investigators report.
Insomnia increases odds of memory decline in older adults
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 07, 2022
Insomnia may be an important target for early intervention to help prevent age-related cognitive decline, investigators say.