Geriatrics News

The American Psychiatric Association has selected Marketa Wills, MD, MBA, as its new CEO and medical director, effective June 1.

In a cohort of older adults who smoked cannabis, impaired driving and elevated blood THC levels were significant 30 minutes after ingestion, according to research from JAMA Network Open.

“Is it all worth it?” reads the title of the Reddit post from an international medical graduate community. I wake up to these posts ever so frequently; I think to myself and slide the notification away.

Rates of adverse events were similar in both the pimavanserin group and placebo group.Pimavanserin was well-tolerated and not associated with cognitive decline or motor dysfunction in older adults with Parkinson’s disease and neuropsychiatric symptoms, according to a poster presentation.

SAN FRANCISCO — Diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders experienced late in life require detailed medical and psychological history, according to a presenter at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting. .

During the pandemic, digital communication technology was associated with anxiety in older adults, while in-person communication was linked to fewer feelings of depression and loneliness, data in the Journal of Applied Gerontology showed.

In older adults with treatment-resistant depression, antidepressant augmentation improved well-being significantly over 10 weeks compared with switching medications and was associated with higher incidence of remission.

Among veterans aged 65 years or older, frailty was positively associated with risk for suicide attempts and negatively associated with risk for suicide death, according to data published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Veterans with prolonged grief disorder had greater odds of also having PTSD, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, according to data published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.