Geriatric Medicine News

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released a draft recommendation advising exercise for community-dwelling adults aged 65 years and older who are at risk for falls.

Low levels of lymphocytes in the blood could indicate an increased risk for death, according to a study published in CMAJ.

The Veterans Health Administration’s Care Assessment Need tool may be able to predict the life expectancy of veterans, helping facilitate conversation about treatment for basal cell carcinoma, according to a study.

Despite women reporting more falls overall, men died from falls at higher rates, according to results published in MMWR.

Switching older patients with frailty syndrome and atrial fibrillation to a non-vitamin K antagonist from their old blood thinner caused significant bleeding risk and no greater protection from stroke, a speaker reported.

The FDA has granted Eisai full approval for Leqembi to treat adults with Alzheimer’s disease.

A 73-year-old woman presents with her daughter, who lives down the street from her, and her husband of 51 years for her annual Medicare wellness visit. She has been a patient in the practice for the past 7 to 8 years. She is a retired teacher.

In a trial of more than 20,000 older adults, vitamin D supplementation trended toward reducing risk for major CV events in older adults compared with placebo, a finding differing from previous studies.

I want to reflect on a recent patient I admitted: a woman in her 40s who presented with an intractable headache.

A 76-year-old man makes an appointment for an evaluation of shakiness.