SAN FRANCISCO — Among patients with mild cognitive impairment, those with extrapyramidal signs were about six times more likely to develop non-Alzheimer’s forms of dementia than those without baseline extrapyramidal signs, according to a prospective...
I had the pleasure last month of being invited to the Oregon Geriatrics Society (OGS) annual meeting at the Sunriver resort to present on a couple of my favorite topics. At this meeting, David Barnard, JD, PhD, shared an unusual multimedia...
SAN FRANCISCO — Metabolic dysregulation and particularly abdominal obesity lead to failure to obtain complete remission with treatment of late-life depression, according to a multicenter, prospective cohort study.
WAIKOLOA, HAWAII — The FRAIL scale questionnaire predicts functional status and mortality at 1 year among geriatric trauma patients and is a useful tool for bedside screening by clinicians, results from a single-center study demonstrated.
ROME — The 2016 joint European guidelines on management of atrial fibrillation break new ground by declaring as a strong Class IA recommendation that the novel oral anticoagulants are now the drugs of choice — preferred over warfarin — for stroke...
The field of wound care has expanded quickly over the last 2 decades, and progress has brought new challenges for long-term care. We now have a sicker population, multiple specialists claiming expertise in wound care, and a variety of expensive...
For the month of December only, take 20% off of Immunizations in the Long-Term Care Setting and Influenza Immunization and the Health Care Worker (DVD) . Use code 122016 at checkout. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recommends a...
Aging is often associated with various underlying comorbidities that warrant the use of multiple medications. Various interventions, including medication reviews, to optimize pharmacotherapy in older people residing in aged care facilities have been...
Complete the Survey: be a Part of Shaping the Understanding of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Practitioners in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) medicine have an unusual and important opportunity to help shape the body of knowledge for...
