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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
ObjectivesThis study examines the association between reduced social engagement and cognitive function among older adults in China during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on gender and urban-rural differences.MethodsUsing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study data, we used OLS regression to assess changes in cognitive function before and during the pandemic and their associations with changes in physical and cognitively stimulating activities.ResultsCognitive function declined across...
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a globally growing neurological disorder in older adults that is radiologically characterized by enlargement of ventricles. However, it remains unknown whether ventricular enlargement can produce biomechanical loading large enough to drive brain morphological changes and tissue damage. Here, we develop an anatomically detailed biomechanical model of aging human brain and apply ventricular enlargement using a three-dimensional displacement field...
Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 has been proposed as a biological driver of Long COVID, a disabling chronic illness with no proven treatments. We conducted an exploratory, placebo-controlled, double-blind, 2:1 randomized mechanistic trial (NCT05877508) of the SARS-CoV-2-specific monoclonal antibody AER002 in 36 participants who met the World Health Organization case definition of Long COVID. After baseline characterization, participants received a single infusion and were followed for 360 days. The...
CONCLUSIONS: DCM incidence in UK primary care is higher than previously reported estimates, peaks in older males, and rose significantly after 2020. Primary care clinicians should be aware DCM may be more common than previously assumed.
CONCLUSION: Baricitinib combined with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was associated with lower mortality in elderly patients with severe or critical COVID-19 in the real world. Carbapenem-resistant A.baumanniiand carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae were more common pathogens detected in the respiratory tract in these patients.
CONCLUSIONS: The concentration of serum calpain-5 is positively correlated with disease severity and adverse prognosis, implying calpain-5 may be involved in the progression of COVID-19. Serum calpain-5 level may served as a useful biomarker for guiding clinicians in managing and monitoring disease outcome in COVID-19 patients.
CONCLUSION: Liposomal amphotericin B, posaconazole, and antibiotics were the most prescribed drugs. DM was the most common comorbidity, highlighting the need for careful monitoring. Antifungal prescriptions were significantly associated with adversities, suggesting the need for implementation of a contextual drug-use policy. The MBPD follow-up was well received and may help monitor recovery, identify health needs, and support the care of survivors of chronic diseases in the future....
INTRODUCTION: Identifying the factors that influence attitudes toward biomedical research is essential for improving public engagement and participation. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to assess how a public health crisis shapes perceptions of clinical research. We investigated whether attitudes toward biomedical research differed across phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CONCLUSION: The current study suggests that ageist messages portraying 'vulnerability' reflected commonly held attitudes toward older Australians during the pandemic and highlights the importance of considering both the quality and nature of intergenerational contact when developing ageism-reduction strategies. Potential explanations, limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
CONCLUSION: This first in-depth study of ocular injuries in Central Thailand's community hospitals found persistently high delayed presentations, with older age, F2 hospital visits, and outpatient department (OPD) attendance as key contributing factors. The trend during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the important role of lower-tier community hospitals in providing prompt and accessible care for patients. Strengthening healthcare infrastructure and public awareness is essential to ensure...
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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
Agencies have long relied on civil monetary penalties to address violations of health care and public health regulations. But rules governing federal fines are now in flux.
Posted: October 29, 2026, 12:00 am
In 2015, pivotal randomized, controlled trials established the benefit of endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke due to a large-vessel occlusion.1,2 The trials showed a major clinical benefit in patients presenting with relatively standard stroke features: large-vessel occlusion in the anterior circulation; relevant clinical neurologic deficit; short time...
Posted: October 23, 2026, 12:00 am
Among patients with mild stroke from large-vessel occlusion, 69.4% had a favorable functional outcome at 90 days with endovascular therapy plus medical management, as compared with 50.0% with medical management alone.
Posted: October 23, 2026, 12:00 am
Trust is the precondition for informed consent, shared decision making, and any clinical intervention. But public trust in medicine is rapidly eroding, and it can’t be rebuilt in a single policy cycle.
Posted: October 22, 2026, 12:00 am
In two trials involving participants with OSA and obesity or overweight with or without type 2 diabetes, treatment with retatrutide was found to result in greater decreases in the apnea–hypopnea index than placebo.
Posted: October 21, 2026, 12:00 am
Integration of screening for health-related social needs into clinical care represents an important advance. But most screening tools haven’t been developed or validated with older adults in mind.
Posted: October 15, 2026, 12:00 am
Older adults are vulnerable to firearm-related harms. Medicare’s annual wellness visit presents an opportunity to engage older adults and their families or caregivers in conversations about firearms.
Posted: October 15, 2026, 12:00 am
For decades, one of the most important unresolved questions in preventive cardiovascular medicine has been whether statin therapy should be initiated for primary prevention in healthy older adults. Although age is among the strongest determinants of absolute risk, the benefits of statin therapy beyond 70 to 75 years of age...
Posted: October 1, 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: October 1, 2026, 12:00 am
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
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
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
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
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