Take meds as directed, reduce overall healthcare costs
...e can have a huge impact on healthcare spending by elderly people: Treatment costs for the syndrome hover nea...ation adherence with increased age is common among elderly people, as most take several medications daily for various health conditions," Balkrishnan said. "St...Study sets treatment standard for elderly with colon cancer
... for colon cancer is as safe and effective for the elderly as it is for younger patients, based on a Universi... age alone should not exclude an otherwise healthy elderly patient from receiving FOLFOX therapy. This includes people who had just undergone surgery for colon...A little household help may reduce health-care costs among elderly
... as long as possible," she said. "That's what many elderly people and their younger family members desire." Sands also said that $132 billion is spent yearly in the U.S. on long-term medical care, about 73 percent of which goes to nursing homes. Half of long-term care is paid by the government. Keeping a pe...Indoor pollution from cooking on wood stoves affects women in developing countries
...rowth and, consequently, function in adulthood and elderly life is unclear. However, biomass smoke exposure starts early in life because women cook using wood stoves in the same room where children sleep, play and eat, increasing the risk of respiratory infections and possible reduction in lung growth. Likew...Strokes in children need to be recognized quickly
...d. "Although usually thought of as afflicting only elderly patients, strokes may occur as early as infancy," said pediatric neurologist Rebecca Ichord, M.D., who treated Colin at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Stroke needs to be considered by first-line pediatric caregivers who encounter a patient...Technology helps disabled kids find their voice
...e be adapted to victims of major accidents and the elderly as well. According to Janice Light, distinguished professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State, more than 2 million Americans are unable to use speech to communicate, and children are a major component of this population. "Kids ...Older men with early prostate cancer survived longer with treatment vs. observation
... they never become life-threatening, especially in elderly men who may die of other causes before the cancer causes problems," explained Wong. "But other men develop complications and die from their cancer making the decision to treat quite difficult." It remains unclear whether detecting early prostate tum...Cocoa intake linked to lower blood pressure, reduced risk of death
A study of elderly Dutch men indicates that eating or drinking cocoa is associated with lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death, according to an article in the February 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Cocoa has be...Higher optimism levels associated with lower risk of cardiovascular death in elderly men
The most optimistic elderly men in a Dutch study had a lower risk of cardiovas...lth, Deft, the Netherlands, and colleagues studied elderly men living in the Netherlands to determine optimism's effect on cardiovascular death. The study incl...Women's high heart-surgery death rate may be due to infection
...fection, making infection at any site a concern in elderly patients," Rogers continues. She notes that women ...ater mortality for men has been observed before in elderly populations, Rogers notes. "Women tend to live with their disease; men die of it," she says. In this...Whites more likely than blacks to die soon after spouse's death
...vard University. The longitudinal study of 410,272 elderly American couples indicates that the "widowhood eff...es and far more active in religious organizations, elderly blacks tend to have stronger and more extensive social networks than elderly whites. Black couples a...How, not where, you die matters most to terminal patients
...nd Edmonton, the survey involved 434 seriously ill elderly patients and 160 family members. Out of 28 factors describing quality care, patients and family members rated "to have trust and confidence in the doctors looking after you" and "not to be kept alive on life supports when there is little hope for a m...Chocolate milk could be key to longer, healthier life
...er and PhD student Cheryl Murphy, asked a group of elderly kiwis to perform two identical sessions of aerobic exercise on a stationary bike. After one session the participants were asked to drink a mixture of protein and carbohydrate (e.g. sweetened milk) and after the other just carbohydrates. It is well k......cause serious illness, and sometimes death, in the elderly and other vulnerable people. A flu outbreak also puts a considerable strain on hospitals, as the number of people admitted always increases during an outbreak, not just for respiratory problems but for a variety of other medical conditions. In cooler...Declines in exercise capacity may be due to lack of training, not just age
...roportionately greater response to training in the elderly subjects," the authors wrote. Edward G. Lakatta, M...rtant. "The practical significance of this is that elderly people should not be afraid to exercise, which is good for them. If they are otherwise in good healt...Tool to reduce elderly driving deaths nationwide
...hanks to an agreement between a national expert on elderly drivers and one of the nation's leading manufactur...Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) refers elderly drivers to Freund for evaluation. "DMVs are looking for help on how to evaluate drivers objectively ...Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population
...aten a shortage of doctors to treat the burgeoning elderly population are wrong, according to researchers at Dartmouth Medical School's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS). In a study published in the March/April issue of Health Affairs, they argue that if employed efficiently, the current su...Exposure to fine particle air pollution linked with risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases
...gs indicate an ongoing threat to the health of the elderly population from airborne particles and provide a rationale for setting a PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard that is as protective of their health as possible," the researchers write. "The sources of particles contributing to the observed ris...Less-invasive technique has improved outcomes of aortic aneurysm repair
... studied, AAA repair was performed in about 28,000 elderly Medicare patients per year. The use of EVAR increased steadily after 2000, the first year Medicare recognized the procedure. By 2003, EVAR made up more than 40 percent of AAA repairs. The risk of death was significantly lower with EVAR: 1.9 percen...Elderly have higher risk for cardiovascular, respiratory disease
...o the cardiovascular and respiratory health of our elderly citizens," said NIEHS Director David A. Schwartz, M.D. "Now that the link between inhaled particles and adverse health effects has been established, we must focus our efforts on understanding why these particles are harmful, and how these effects can...