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- Abc of dementia
- Acute medical illness in old age
- Blackwell’s primary care essentials: geriatrics
- Brocklehurt’s textbook of geriatrics and gerontology
- The dimensions of elder abuse
- Elder abuse: critical issues in policy and practice
- Epidemiology in old age
- Geriatric medicine: an evidence-based approach
- Geriatric physical diagnosis : a guide to observation and assessment
- Geriatrics in orthopaedics
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Accidental Falls Evidence Summary
COVID-19 and elderly/geriatric/aged patients – pubmed results
CONCLUSIONS: Methadone dispensing increased substantially among Medicare Advantage enrollees with opioid use disorder after 2020, particularly among dually eligible beneficiaries aged <65 years. The decline in commercial buprenorphine dispensing after 2022 warrants further investigation. Tailored efforts may be needed to close payer-related treatment gaps and support broader medications for opioid use disorder access.
CONCLUSIONS: National ankle fracture care shifted toward ambulatory surgery without a parallel increase in inpatient admissions. Admission remained associated with fracture complexity, age, payer, and geography.
CONCLUSIONS: Fatigue and functional performance improved over time regardless of vaccination status. We found no statistically significant association between mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and worsening symptoms or impaired recovery, although smaller effects cannot be excluded.
CONCLUSION: Older patients and those carrying a greater comorbidity burden were prioritised for antiviral treatment in this Thai outpatient cohort. Drug-drug interaction concerns, particularly between ritonavir and statins, drove physicians toward molnupiravir even when nirmatrelvir/ritonavir would otherwise have been the preferred agent. Systematic incorporation of pharmacist-conducted medication assessment before antiviral prescribing represents a practicable strategy for reducing avoidable...
CONCLUSIONS: The consistent rise in benzodiazepine consumption across all age groups in Catalonia highlights gaps in prevention and management strategies. Disparities linked to socioeconomic factors, gender roles, older age and area of residence underscore structural inequities affecting older adults, women and rural populations. These findings reflect a deep-rooted public health challenge in Spain, driven by pharmacological over-reliance and insufficient attention to the impact caused by social...
CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 infection was associated with elevated perceived stress among urban AI/AN adults; this association was robust to adjustment for comorbid health conditions, social determinants of health, healthcare access, and pandemic-related stressors. Healthcare providers should be aware that AI/AN people who have been infected with COVID-19 are at higher risk of elevated stress, and further research on the downstream health consequences of stress among those infected with COVID-19 is...
ObjectiveThis study was conducted to evaluate the baseline clinical profile, causative pathogens, and treatment patterns of severe community-acquired pneumonia across two medical centers (Xi'an and Jiaxing) from January 2023 to August 2025.MethodsWe extracted data regarding medical profile, demographic characteristics, comorbidities, laboratory parameters, treatments during hospitalization, and outcomes for these patients from electronic records. Pathogens were detected using a combination of...
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CONCLUSIONS: RIV4 reduced influenza outbreak occurrence in US nursing homes during a season with moderate influenza activity in older adults. No differences were observed during the low-circulation 2020-2021 season. These findings suggest that recombinant influenza vaccines may provide clinically meaningful facility-level benefits in long-term care settings during seasons with substantial influenza circulation.
CONCLUSION: AAV exhibited a clear seasonal pattern, which differed during the COVID-19 period. However, these differences were not consistently observed across individual disease subtypes, and the factors underlying them remain unclear.
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Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults With Dementia (Full-text available via NHS Athens)
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Elderly Health Journal
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New England Journal of Medicine- Geriatrics/Aging
A dying patient in a state psychiatric hospital has no access to a DNR order that would make the process as peaceful as possible — as the notorious Bedlam casts a shadow over mental health care to this day.
Posted: September 10, 2026, 12:00 am
A 65-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of fever, intermittent abdominal pain, and rash. The fever began 5 weeks earlier, and palpable purpura developed 1 week before admission. A diagnosis was made.
Posted: September 10, 2026, 12:00 am
In older adults without cardiovascular disease, treatment with atorvastatin led to a lower risk of major cardiovascular events than placebo at a median of 5.9 years but did not result in longer disability-free survival.
Posted: August 29, 2026, 12:00 am
As the health of his brother and running buddy rapidly declines and he faces his own health scares, a physician feels compelled — and grateful — to keep moving forward.
Posted: August 13, 2026, 12:00 am
Since Dr. Phillip Hench reported on the efficacy of glucocorticoids for rheumatoid arthritis in 1949, glucocorticoids have saved many lives and have offered relief to countless patients. Glucocorticoids have been used as the mainstay of treatment for many immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis (GCA), owing to...
Posted: August 13, 2026, 12:00 am
Among patients with relapsed polymyalgia rheumatica, treatment with secukinumab plus a 24-week glucocorticoid taper resulted in a higher percentage of patients with remission than a glucocorticoid taper alone.
Posted: August 13, 2026, 12:00 am
This review summarizes the classification, evaluation, risk stratification, and management of syncope. History, examination, electrocardiography, and orthostatic blood-pressure measurement identify the cause in most patients.
Posted: August 6, 2026, 12:00 am
As legislative support for medical aid in dying grows, the paradox at the heart of this option, with its broader-than-expected benefits, becomes increasingly clear: its expansion hinges on its rarity.
Posted: July 30, 2026, 12:00 am
As his physician-father’s neurologic health suddenly deteriorates, a physician-son takes notes. With his usual compartmentalization failing him, he knows he can at least bear witness to his father’s decline.
Posted: July 16, 2026, 12:00 am
The United States faces a projected shortage of millions of long-term–care workers by 2040. Yet in each area where progress could help address this gap, federal policy is moving in the wrong direction.
Posted: July 9, 2026, 12:00 am
A rapid growth in the population of older Americans has long been anticipated. But projections didn’t anticipate that this transition would coincide with a sustained reduction in nursing-home services.
Posted: July 9, 2026, 12:00 am
Growing acceptance of voluntary euthanasia, which opens the door to death by organ donation, warrants a recontextualization of the dead donor rule and assessment of the ethical principles involved.
Posted: July 9, 2026, 12:00 am
An ICU physician believed letting her father die at home meant comfort, dignity, control, family close by, and the quiet reassurance of hospice. But she didn’t realize what it would require of her family.
Posted: July 9, 2026, 12:00 am
Patients with shrinking cognitive bandwidth may feel their disability keenly in daily life, even if they can pass a controlled test of cognitive capacity. How should clinicians approach and care for them?
Posted: July 2, 2026, 12:00 am
This review summarizes advances in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, with emphasis on effective disease-modifying therapies for relapsing disease and the need for better treatments to prevent progression and rebuild myelin.
Posted: July 2, 2026, 12:00 am
Observations in Down syndrome were critical to Alzheimer’s disease discoveries. But persons with Down syndrome have historically been excluded from trials relying on insights derived from their biology.
Posted: June 18, 2026, 12:00 am
Post-thrombotic syndrome is the most common chronic complication of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), affecting 20 to 50% of patients with DVT and causing debilitating symptoms involving the limbs — including pain, swelling, skin changes, and venous ulcers — that substantially reduce quality of life and impose considerable socioeconomic burden.1 ...
Posted: June 18, 2026, 12:00 am
Among patients with moderate or severe PTS, the addition of endovascular therapy to standard care resulted in less severe PTS and better quality of life at 6 months than standard care alone but with a higher risk of bleeding.
Posted: June 18, 2026, 12:00 am
One way to classify acute ischemic stroke is by the anatomy of vessel occlusion. Initial randomized trials of endovascular thrombectomy focused on large-vessel occlusions.1-5 These proximal occlusions of the intracranial carotid artery or the stem of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) represent the most severe form of anterior...
Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
Among patients with stroke due to medium-vessel occlusion, thrombectomy led to functional independence at 90 days (in 58.6% of patients, vs. 46.6% with medical management) but also to a higher risk of intracranial hemorrhage.
Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
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