Patient-centered approach can backfire
...ne with their own. But some patients, especially older patients, prefer a doctor with a more traditional "doctor-centered" or "paternalistic" style, someone who spends less time explaining a condition and seeks little patient input when it comes to treatment decisions. The study showed that when those pa...Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
...logists at the University of Illinois suggest that older adults who adopt an exercise regimen combining Tai...ease the antibody response to influenza vaccine in older adults, said the studys lead author Yang Yang, an adjunct professor of kinesiology and community hea...Antioxidants show no clear benefit against cardiovascular events, death in high-risk women
...ular Study, which followed 8,171 women 40 years or older (average age 60.6) beginning in 1995 to 1996. The women, who either had a history of cardiovascular disease or three or more risk factors, were randomly assigned to take 500 milligrams of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) or placebo every day; 600 internatio...Smoking may strongly increase long-term risk of eye disease
...d colleagues examined 2,454 Australians age 49 and older to study the association between smoking and the 10-year incidence of AMD, as well as the possible links between smoking and other common risk factors. The participants answered a food frequency questionnaire and had retinal photos taken at five-year...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...alth problems experienced by later middle-aged and older African-Americans living in St. Louis. That larger project gathered data from 998 African-Americans in the St. Louis area who were born between 1936 and 1950. When that project began, diabetes already was very common in this population. More than 25...Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
...es more in men than in women. It may be that in an older population, in which the duration of risk factor exposure is longer and the likelihood of coronary artery calcium is higher, the association between obesityas measured by BMI and waist circumferenceand signs of early atherosclerosis is stronger....Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
...ry testing in those patients who were 75 years and older was performed less frequently, with only 28% of patients in this population receiving spirometry. Researchers point to the issue of ageism and question whether or not a patients age influences a physicians decision to order diagnostic testing. The ...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...ves change, including their sleep patterns. While older adults need about seven to eight hours of sleep ea...ll medical problems can disturb our sleep, and the older adults sleep is most vulnerable. Many older adults often have more trouble falling asleep than per...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...alth problems experienced by later middle-aged and older African-Americans living in St. Louis. That original study gathered data from 998 African-Americans in the St. Louis area who were born between 1936 and 1950. When that study began, diabetes already was very common in this population. More than 25...Nationwide data highlight encouraging trends, 'staggering' costs of ESRD
...s (narrowing or "hardening" of the arteries) among older adults is another area of concern. The USRDS dat...lly remarkable since today's dialysis patients are older and sicker than the dialysis population of 20 years ago. There is some concern that the risk of deat...Warfarin better than aspirin at stroke prevention in elderly people with atrial fibrillation
... warfarin could safely be used much more widely by older people. They conclude: We recorded no evidence that anticoagulants [warfarin] were more hazardous than aspirin therapy in this age group, although the study had limited power to detect those differences. In an accompanying Comment, Dr David Garci...Most seniors now have drug coverage, U-M study shows
...ch.---More than 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older now have prescription drug coverage, compared to m...among a nationally representative sample of 10,175 older Americans who were interviewed both in 2004 and in 2006, when the Medicare Part D prescription drug ...Diet foods for children may lead to obesity
...e tendency to overeat. The researchers believe the older rats did not overeat because they, unlike the youn...rt disease, but further research is necessary with older animals using a variety of taste-related cues. "One thing is clear at this point," Pierce said, "...Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
...r people who want to stay strong in their old age: older bodies are just as good as young ones at turning p... enough now in fact, between 16 and 27 percent of older adults are eating less than the USDAs recommended daily allowance of protein. Elderly people may e...Refusal of medical and surgical interventions common among chronically ill elderly
Chronically ill older persons frequently refuse medical and surgical int...he treatment preferences of 226 persons age 60 and older with advanced cancer, congestive heart failure, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Trained re...Better mobility keeps seniors healthier
...cted Health-Related Quality-of-Life for a group of older Americans. The study revealed that mobility is a key factor impacting quality of life for older adults. Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for EldersPilot study (LIFEP) was a randomized, c...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
... ARBOR, Mich. A broad study of adults ages 65 and older has found that half of them have one or more condi...nd Retirement Study. They found that 50 percent of older adults had a moderate to severe form of at least one of the following conditions: cognitive impairme...Even older women at high risk have little interest in being tested for HIV, study finds
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7 Few older women were interested in being tested for the viru...ck of education and prevention efforts targeted at older populations, older women appear to be less capable of accurately assessing their lifetime risk of HI...Chemotherapy with bevacizumab increases risk of blood clots in arteries
...teries and veins included previous blood clots and older age (65 or older.) The clinical benefit associated with bevacizumab therapy was maintained for all subgroups. Although death from [a blood clot in the artery] was uncommon, we did not capture functional disabilities from these events, and the risk ...Osteoporosis screening and treatment may be cost-effective for selected older men
...may be cost-effective to screen and treat selected older men with osteoporosis, depending on their age and ... to have osteoporosis for all men aged 70 years or older regardless of fracture history or other fracture risk factors is not cost-effective using current dr...