Delirium a stand-out coronavirus symptom in people with dementia
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 06, 2021
People with dementia are not more likely than their same-age peers to develop severe COVID-19 or die from the disease — but they are more likely to experience delirium, according to a new study.
Sleep, not depression, may be top concern with beta blocker use: study
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 18, 2021
Depression did not occur any more frequently during beta blockers treatment than with a placebo, but some patients developed sleep-related symptoms, investigators found.
Autoimmune disease may play role in some long COVID cases
By
Lori Baker
Sep 27, 2022
A new study published in the European Respiratory Journal points to the role of autoimmune disease in the troubling condition known as long COVID.
It’s all Greek to CNA who tackled language barrier for patient’s care
By
Nicole Blanchard
Aug 04, 2022
Alden Town Manor Health and Rehab certified nurse aide Estefanny Bedolla took the meaning of “going above and beyond” to the next level when she recently learned how to speak Greek to communicate and...
How a long-term care operator used immigrant program to overcome chronic staff shortages
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 18, 2021
Instead of waiting for solutions from state and federal health officials, a Chicago long-term care provider has taken its staffing shortage crisis into its own hands by reaching overseas for help.
Medicare and Medicaid recipients, minorities receive more low-value, aggressive cancer care at end of...
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
Investigators found that people of Black and Asian or Pacific Islander race, Hispanic ethnicity, with public insurance status, and who were admitted to an urban teaching hospital were more likely to receive...
Sleep disorders common after stroke; older survivors at special risk: study
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 08, 2021
Fully 41% of people who had strokes or mini-strokes had insomnia immediately after the event, and nearly that many still had trouble sleeping more than three months later, according to a new review.
High amyloid levels linked to early-stage Alzheimer’s
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 06, 2020
Screening data from an Alzheimer’s drug trial suggests that higher brain amyloid levels exist well before clinical symptoms appear.
Two brain proteins linked to dementia could spot it earlier, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
May 13, 2024
A new study finds that peripheral glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and neurofilament light chain (NfL), two proteins in the brain, could be biomarkers that clinicians can use to spot dementia early....
Meet Barbara Galindo, Veteran VIP honoree
By
Emma Baumgartel
Aug 05, 2021
Barbara Galindo, administrator, Residential Plaza at Blue Lagoon, Miami is in the 2021 class of Mcknight’s Women of Distinction as a Veteran VIP honoree.