Geriatric Medicine News

A fall prevention toolkit that engages hospitalized patients and their families was linked to fewer falls and injuries, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

There were approximately 1.3 billion cases of musculoskeletal disorders worldwide in 2017, leading to 121,300 deaths and 138.7 million disability adjusted life years, according to findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Late-life air pollution exposure among women aged 80 years or older appeared associated with increased risk for depressive episodes and episodic memory declines, according to study results published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Older adults with higher levels of loneliness were at increased risk for more severe depression symptoms, according to results of a population-based cohort study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Opioid use among older Medicare beneficiaries dropped during a recent 4-year period, but a “substantial” number of these individuals were considered chronic and heavy opioid users, researchers wrote.

Use of corticosteroid injections did not exacerbate radiographic progression of knee osteoarthritis or accelerate total knee replacement compared with hyaluronic acid, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2020.

Physicians should ask patients if they have ever served in the military, since these men and women are more susceptible to certain health problems, researchers wrote in Advances in Medical Education and Practice.

Less than 3% of older men who had experienced an osteoporosis-related fracture had been properly diagnosed and treated, according to findings presented at ACR Convergence 2020.

High LDL in older patients may confer increased risk for atherosclerotic CVD and MI, and therefore this population may benefit from targeted LDL-lowering therapies, according to two studies published in The Lancet.

Heavy use of contract staffing was associated with an increased risk for a COVID-19 outbreak in nursing homes, according to research presented at this year’s virtual IDWeek.