A core group of late-life risk factors are associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), dementia, and mortality after 6 years, according to a longitudinal study in Sydney, Australia.
Coexisting severe frailty and malnutrition were found to be common among the oldest old in nursing homes, and were associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality at 1 year, according to a small prospective Japanese study.
Research conducted thus far on frailty and nutrition suggests a “moderate to strong relationship” between frailty and dietary factors — namely, protein intake and the intake of specific micronutrients — according to a recently published narrative...
Payments to health care providers under the Medicare program are subject to potential repayment or recoupment via the review processes that protect the fiscal integrity of the Medicare program. When the review process demands repayment from a...
The word “resilience” comes from the Latin word salire, which means to spring up, and the word resilire, which means to spring back. Resilience is defined as the ability to spring back or recover from a physical, emotional, financial, or social...
An evolving taxonomy of health in older people predicated not on specific medical diagnoses but upon a more integrated portrait of the patient’s overall health — including mental status, sensory and physical function, and previous history of falls...
Delirium appears to act independently of the pathologic processes of classic dementia — and “multiplicatively” — in driving cognitive decline, according to findings from a novel neuropathological study combining data from three population-based...
Evidence is growing that advance care planning (ACP) interventions can improve the quality of end-of-life care, family satisfaction, and concordance between preferences for care and the care actually received.
Not long ago it fell to me to deliver some unhappy news to my 92-year-old mother. I have been doing that a lot lately. Her 91-year-old cousin, Rita — my mother’s last first cousin and lifelong best friend — had passed away in her sleep. Although...
