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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: Receipt of both substance use treatment and mental health treatment remained low among U.S. adults with co-occurring disorders despite modest post-COVID-19 pandemic increases. Persistent disparities and barriers suggest a need for stronger parity enforcement, stable financing, and improved coordination across behavioral health services.
Routine SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in hospitals is crucial for preventing in-hospital transmission, especially among elderly and multimorbid patients. While RT-PCR testing is sensitive, it is resource-intensive, and rapid antigen tests lack sensitivity. This study evaluates the diagnostic performance and utility of serum N-antigen ELISA for detecting active SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized patients during the Omicron period. A prospective, non-interventional diagnostic accuracy study was...
Post COVID-19 condition (PCC) significantly affects health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but involvement and interconnectivity of different health dimensions is still underexplored. This study aims to characterize the multidimensional health status of individuals with and without PCC after at least one year follow-up. Hospitalized and non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients were included from three hospitals in the Netherlands. HRQoL, pulmonary and metabolic health, muscle strength, physical...
Although COVID-19 vaccines are widely available and effective, vaccination anxiety remains a significant public health challenge that is distinct from behavioral vaccine hesitancy. While various scales measure hesitancy, few specifically capture the multifaceted psychological anxiety regarding COVID-19 vaccines, and none have been validated for the Japanese population. To directly quantify this affective component, this study aimed to develop and validate the COVID-19 Vaccination Anxiety Scale...
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of respiratory and bloodstream coinfection was low in our cohort of hospitalised COVID-19 patients. Despite non-standardised microbiological testing, antibiotic use was disproportionately high. Further work is required to define risk factors and improve diagnosis of COVID-19-associated coinfection, to better inform antimicrobial stewardship.
Amebiasis cases in Japan are reported to the government according to the Infectious Diseases Control Law. Previous studies have shown significant reductions in total case numbers after 2018 and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to clarify the recent trends of amebiasis cases in Japan, including during the pandemic period, with details on places of infection, using government surveillance data from January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2022. Change of time trends were modeled through...
CONCLUSION: Short-term exposure to non-optimal temperatures significantly increases COVID-19-related emergency healthcare demand, with variant- and demographic-specific differences. Temperature-responsive public health strategies are needed to reduce the burden of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases as climate extremes intensify.
CONCLUSION: These findings demonstrate that diagnostic delay significantly increases household virus transmission, particularly among older adults, highlighting the need to strengthen early detection mechanisms and ensure rapid access to diagnostic testing in all settings.
CONCLUSION: Although we found discrepancies between self-reported measures and EMR coding, we did not find evidence of demographic biases in diagnosis among participants with high symptom interference.
CONCLUSIONS: Patterns observed during the pandemic suggest that pre-existing differences in EOL care across Europe might have widened, and lower education and financial resources were associated with lower EOL care use. These results underscore the urgent need for policies that build resilient, equitable EOL care systems capable of protecting disadvantaged populations in times of crisis.
Recent articles from selected Journal RSS feeds/ News feeds
Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults With Dementia (Full-text available via NHS Athens)
Elderly Health Journal
New England Journal of Medicine- Geriatrics/Aging
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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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
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: June 3, 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
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
An 86-year-old man presented to the neurology clinic with 2 years of progressive memory loss and difficulty walking. An MRI showed microbleeds that appeared as hypointense foci throughout the lobar regions.
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, caused by beta-amyloid deposition in brain blood vessels, leads to lobar cerebral hemorrhage, microbleeds, and white-matter lesions and contributes to cognitive decline.
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
Among adults 50 years of age or older, fewer cases of confirmed influenza-like illness were observed with an mRNA influenza vaccine than with standard vaccines. Reactogenicity was higher with the mRNA vaccine.
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
This article summarizes the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of Barrett’s esophagus, a reflux-related condition with increased adenocarcinoma risk, highlighting endoscopic diagnosis, surveillance, and early curative therapy.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:00 am
Effective blood-pressure control is the cornerstone of management after intracerebral hemorrhage; it is both the primary determinant of risk and the most vital intervention for reducing the threat of a second vascular event.1 Yet, despite the availability of effective treatments, blood pressure remains poorly controlled in survivors of...
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
Jack, a retired teacher whose 91 years hadn’t been easy, wanted to leave the hospital forever. With a hospice nurse who was Polish like his cherished grandmother, he could finally take comfort in his care.
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
Among survivors of intracerebral hemorrhage, a single pill with three low-dose antihypertensive agents added to standard care was associated with a lower incidence of stroke and major cardiovascular events than placebo.
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
This Double Take video reviews the differential diagnosis for a woman with night sweats and unintentional weight loss and how it evolves as new clinical findings are presented.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
In a placebo-controlled trial involving patients with noncardioembolic ischemic stroke or high-risk TIA, asundexian added to antiplatelet therapy led to a lower risk of ischemic stroke without increasing major bleeding.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
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