AGS: Trump Administration’s 2021 budget ‘deeply troubling’ for older americans
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society Experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) raised grave concerns with President Trump's 2021 ...
Tag: Gerontology
Readmission risk increases for elderly patients with geriatric-specific characteristics
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study results suggest the need to intervene early to prevent costly unplanned readmissions, ...
Memory games: Eating well to remember
UTS researchers have uncovered a strong link between the consumption of certain food groups and memory loss and comorbid heart ...
Despite a marked reduction in the prevalence of dementia, the number of people with dementia is set to double by 2050 according to new Alzheimer Europe report
Credit: Alzheimer Europe Brussels, 18 February 2020 - Today, at a European Parliament lunch debate hosted by Christophe Hansen MEP ...
Injectable drug for faster healing of bone fractures prepares for clinical trials
Credit: Novosteo/Philip S. Low WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - One in three adults aged 60 and over suffering from a hip ...
New measure of biological age can predict health risks
Credit: Gunilla Sonnebring People age in different ways. Biological age is a metric that scientists use to predict health risks, ...
Inequitable medicare reimbursements threaten care of most vulnerable
Credit: Saint Louis University Hospitals, doctors and Medicare Advantage insurance plans that care for some of the most vulnerable patients ...
Bleeding may be a sign of bowel cancer not just a side-effect of blood-thinning drugs
Study of 125,500 atrial fibrillation patientsCredit: European Heart Journal Patients who are being treated with blood-thinning drugs for irregular heart ...
Novel compound is promising drug candidate for Alzheimer’s disease
New gamma secretase inhibitor blocks only amyloid production, no other functionsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- A newly identified ...
Can weighted vests help maintain bone health when older adults slim down?
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Losing weight can be a tricky balance of risks and benefits for older adults: You ...
Reelin reverts the main pathological processes related to Alzheimer’s and other tauopathy
An essential protein for brain plasticityCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Promoting the signalling pathway of reelin -an essential extracellular protein for ...
Potential way to halt blinding macular degeneration identified
Scientists find unexpected connection between 2 main forms of AMDCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Researchers have successfully treated age-related ...
Possible Alzheimer’s breakthrough suggested
Researchers say newly found protein is bio-marker for disease; suggest suppression of 'aggregatin' could lead to future treatments to slow ...
January Alzheimer’s & Dementia highlights: Sleep, race/ethnicity, artificial intelligence
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association January 2020 Journal DigestCredit: Credit Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO, January 16, 2020 ...