A long recovery from disorientation following electroconvulsive therapy seems to be a sign that the therapy has effectively treated an elderly patient who has major depression, suggests a longitudinal cohort study conducted in Norway.
The traditional long-term care model is fraught with inconsistencies in the care continuum, which helped spur the nursing home negligence litigation cottage industry that has sprung up in many states. Typically, a resident would be discharged from...
Insufficient omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-6 PUFA), excess trans fat and, to a lesser extent, excess saturated fat, are significant causes of coronary heart disease, suggests a global study recently published online.
My last column (see Caring for the Ages, December 2015, “So You Give Great Care; Do You Have Data To Back That Up?”; online at www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114 (15)00433-3/fulltext) focused on the overwhelming importance of data in all...
Few adults who reported subjective memory complaints discussed such issues with a health care provider, according to results from a telephone study involving more than 10,276 people.
About one out of every five transfers from skilled nursing facilities to hospital emergency departments are potentially preventable, according to a study of root cause analysis, or RCA, a tool the researchers said can provide important insights...
Increasing weight loss between midlife and late life is a marker for mild cognitive impairment, according to a report published online Feb. 1 in JAMA Neurology.
