Geriatric Medicine News

The American Psychiatric Association sent a letter to CMS on Thursday requesting that it relax the video requirement for delivery of telepsychiatry services.

Telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy, or T-CBT, reduced depressive symptoms among patients with Parkinson’s disease, according to results of a randomized controlled trial published in Neurology.

Patients with CVD-related dizziness had a higher mortality rate than those whose dizziness was primarily caused by peripheral vestibular disease, according to a prospective cohort study published in Annals of Family Medicine.

Researchers observed significant racial and ethnic differences in late-life depression severity, item-level symptom burden and depression care among older adults after adjusting for numerous confounders, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

Effect sizes of psychotherapies differed by patient age, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry.

People with Parkinson’s disease have a higher prevalence of ophthalmologic symptoms than those without the disease, according to research published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Many physicians treating older patients who require surrogate decision-makers experience moral distress, according to research recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

More than 118,300 cases of COVID-19 and 4,200 related deaths have been identified worldwide, including 938 cases and 29 deaths in the United States, according to WHO and the CDC.

Older adults who garden, swim, dance, walk or engage in other leisure activities may have larger brain volumes than inactive adults, according to research to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.

Patients with Parkinson’s disease performed better on several disease assessment scores after boxing and playing pingpong, according to findings that will be presented at the upcoming American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.