Geriatrics
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Resource Menu Gives Choice to Caregivers Struggling to Meet Basic Needs
The menu option allows caregivers to make choices based on their priorities and not on whether they meet the screening thresholds for need.
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Do Antipsychotic Overprescribing Warning Letters Work?
The intervention reduced quetiapine use among all patients with dementia.
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Does Racism in Black Americans Boost Alzheimer’s Risk?
Alzheimer’s disease is twice as prevalent in Black Americans as in Whites, at 18.6% and 10%, respectively, and the difference can’t be attributed...
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Lecanemab’s Promise and Peril: Alzheimer’s Treatment Dilemma
A study found a minimum clinically important difference for lecanemab treatment in mild disease and possible amyloid-related abnormalities on on...
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Nocturnal Hot Flashes and Alzheimer’s Risk
Study results provide further evidence to support the possibility that agents that reduce nighttime hot flashes (including hormone therapy) may...
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Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Associated With Poorer Cognition in Older Adults
Data from a large cohort study suggested the need for improved strategies to diagnose and treat urinary symptoms in older adults.
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Clinicians Call for Easing FDA Warnings on Low-Dose Estrogen
He is doing so at a time of increased interest in understanding genitourinary syndrome of menopause, which low-dose estrogen may treat.
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Lower Protein Intake In Midlife May Increase Mortality Risk
More data are needed, but a population-based study showed consistently greater mortality for each quintile from the highest to the lowest quintile...
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Testosterone/CVD Risk Debate Revived by New Meta-Analysis
High testosterone concentrations at baseline were not linked with increased mortality from cardiovascular disease or from all causes but very low...
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Inappropriate Medication Use Persists in Older Adults With Dementia
Data from a cross-sectional analysis suggested troubling trends in use of medications by older adults.
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Clinical Guidelines: Start Screening at Age 50 for Age-Related Hearing Loss
The common condition remains underdiagnosed and undertreated with myriad health consequences.