Thursday, September 7 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET Register for Medicare Learning Network events. During this call, learn about the new Facility Assessment Tool to help identify and develop the specific assessment of your facility. Also, find out about...
We read with great interest the letter from Scorza et al1 on our work discussing antipsychotic drug use and mortality in elderly patients with Parkinson disease (PD) in nursing homes. In this study investigating the potential harm of antipsychotic...
We report our experience with the use of a Spanish version of the rapid geriatric assessment of 30 patients in 2 long-term care institutions in Mexico City by a group of healthcare students without prior experience in geriatric medicine. The Spanish...
We read with interest the elegant research article written by Trang et al1 who evaluated the mortality rate in elderly and very elderly (>85 years of age) patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) in nursing homes with and without antipsychotic...
Sarcopenia is a major health problem of the older population. The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) developed diagnostic criteria for diagnosis of sarcopenia that require assessing muscle mass and strength or physical...
There are limited screening tools to predict adverse postoperative outcomes for the geriatric surgical fracture population. Frailty is increasingly recognized as a risk assessment to capture complexity. The goal of this study was to use a short...
Depression is associated with increased mortality in community samples. The use of antidepressant medication may also increase mortality, however, it is still unclear whether taking antidepressants before or after a diagnosis of dementia influences...
Mendonça et al1 present data obtained from the large prospective longitudinal Newcastle 85+ study. In this very old study population, a possible association was investigated between 1-carbon metabolism biomarkers (vitamins folate and B12, and...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join It's not uncommon to worry about what our children put in their mouths. Parents everywhere lock up household products, cleaning supplies, and other items that children might eat or swallow thinking it is a treat or...
