Orlando press briefing: Budget cut puts elders' health at risk
... our nation offers a prescription drug benefit for elderly Americans and 78 million Baby Boomers are approach...tical if our nation is indeed committed to serving elderly Americans and training the healthcare professionals who care for them. The current bill must go forw...Short-term survival rates better for US vs. Canadian heart failure patients
... Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada, report that elderly heart failure patients hospitalized in the United States have better short-term survival than those in Canada, but lose that advantage over time. Published in the November 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, the study compared the patterns o...New pain research: Routine Tylenol for nursing home residents with dementia increases activity
...n circumstances, prophylactic treatment of pain in elderly persons with dementia therefore appears safe and effective in increasing active engagement with the environment."...Chemotherapy after surgery extends survival for patients with advanced endometrial cancer
...f patients with advanced disease, many of whom are elderly or have other illnesses that might prohibit the use of the aggressive chemotherapy regimen. In addition, another GOG study evaluated the use of combination chemotherapy after "involved field" radiation therapy (radiation to less than the whole abodom...Women and elderly should also receive chemotherapy
...ng alive five years after treatment. Women and the elderly given chemotherapy had the same benefit, but were ...Our intent in part is to show that since women and elderly do benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy as much as men or younger patients do, then it will reassure b...Use of chemotherapy after surgery for colon cancer has risen, with increase in survival rate
...A. The study also found that women, blacks and the elderly were less likely to receive this treatment. Accord...t in 2002, but use was lower in black, female, and elderly patients. The difference in 5 year survival increased from an 8 percent improvement in the 1991 sub...Chronic disability in older Americans greatly overestimated
...apture the true burden of chronic disability among elderly persons."...Carnegie Mellon, Pitt demo technology to help elderly at CAST exhibition in Washington
...trate new technologies to enhance the lives of the elderly at the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAS...s we are bringing to the conference will allow the elderly to continue their independence for a longer period of time," said Rory Cooper, distinguished profess...Testosterone therapy may help elderly men with mild Alzheimer's disease
...t therapy may help improve the quality of life for elderly men with mild cases of Alzheimer's disease, accord...r concentrations of the hormone in middle-aged and elderly men who developed AD. Po H. Lu, Psy.D., from the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of Cali...Fish oil prevents potentially deadly decline in heart rate variability
A two-gram fish oil supplement given daily to elderly persons prevented a decline in heart rate variabil... reduce the risk of arrhythmia and sudden death in elderly subjects exposed to ambient air pollution," said Dr. Holguin. In the study, the residents were expos...Nutritional interventions for the aging in developing countries to reduce disease burden?
...ed to nearly triple by 2050. The majority of these elderly people will be living in the developing world, whe...une decline contribute to infectious disease among elderly people in less-developed countries, and make suggestions for future research and intervention strate...Improving coping skills benefits family caregivers of hospice patients with cancer
...t's condition. Yet, caregivers -- many of whom are elderly spouses with their own health problems -- may experience significant strain and anxiety -- from taking care of seriously ill patients, Dr. McMillan said. "In today's health care system, patients simply don't have the option of being hospitalized for ...Age does not predict hearing outcomes for elderly recipients of cochlear implants
Among elderly patients with profound hearing loss, age at time o...associated with advanced levels of hearing loss in elderly people, according to background information in the article. A question of growing importance is whe...Benefits of flu vaccine substantially overestimated says study
Studies of influenza vaccine effectiveness in elderly people substantially overestimate vaccine benefit...ty. This would further decrease flu deaths in the elderly by reducing transmission of the virus. It could be done while better vaccines for the elderly are d...Dietary intake of antioxidants associated with reduced risk of age-related macular degeneration
...educed risk of age-related macular degeneration in elderly persons, according to a study in the December 28 issue of JAMA. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative disorder of the macula, the central part of the retina, and is the most common cause of irreversible blindness in developed count...Positive outcome of Medicare drug benefit
... as their risks and benefits, especially among the elderly and chronically ill. This article appears in the Dec. 29 New England Journal of Medicine. "This will be possible because drug dispensing can be linked to individuals' other health information," explains Platt. Covering more than 40 million people, Me...Cultural differences may explain variations in home remedy use
... other complementary and alternative therapies, in elderly adults with diagnosed diabetes. The participants all came from Robeson and Harnett counties, two largely rural counties in North Carolina with a high proportion of ethnic minorities. "We found that the majority of older adults use some type of home ...Walking three times weekly slows decline from peripheral artery disease
..." McDermott said. Approximately 20 percent of the elderly have PAD. Research has shown that PAD tends to worsen over time, but participation in regular physical rehabilitation programs that include supervised treadmill walking at least three times a week has been shown to improve walking performance and slo...Reduced brain volume may predict dementia in healthy elderly people
... hippocampus may predict which cognitively healthy elderly people will develop dementia over a six-year perio...I to assess the brain volumes of 511 dementia-free elderly people who were part of the Rotterdam Study, a large population-based cohort study that began in 199......res are the assessment of risks for falling in the elderly and the use of antidepressants for patients in the acute phase of a new episode of major depression. CMS intends to provide confidential reports to program participants on how their care measures up to the prioritized starter set of measures. By p...