Caregiver accused of stealing from 90-year-old man with dementia … Fatal shooting at senior facility called a suicide
Improved dementia diagnosing can lead to better advanced care planning: study
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 04, 2022
Medical providers are diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in older adults more frequently than in the past, providing opportunities for better advanced care planning, according to the...
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Pay attention to that soap opera-watching robot
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 11, 2019
Someone at Edge Hill University clearly has a sense of humor, but research there is no laughing matter.
Frontline staff effective in reducing antipsychotic use: study
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 17, 2017
The off-label use of antipsychotic medication to treat cognitively impaired residents can be significantly reduced by training frontline staff members to recognize that individuals may exhibit challenging...
Alzheimer’s prediction tool pinpoints where seniors fall along the timeline dementia
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Aaron Dorman
Feb 05, 2024
A new online tool offers a prediction of how people with early-stage dementia are expected to develop worsening conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
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15 percent of off-label antipsychotic use in assisted living may be inappropriate, but nursing home reduction...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 14, 2021
The rate of potentially inappropriate prescribing of drugs in assisted living is 15% for antipsychotics and 21% for antianxiety medications, according to the authors of a new study published in JAMDA,...
Readmission rates, episode costs increased for patients with dementia
Mar 20, 2023
The cost of a 30-day readmission and total 30-day episode costs were higher for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Promising Alzheimer’s vaccine might cut dementia by half
By
John O'Connor
Nov 27, 2018
An Alzheimer’s vaccine that could reduce dementia by half? Researchers at the University of Texas are saying such an outcome just might be possible, in the wake of results from an experimental vaccine.