Geriatrics News

The combination of several healthy lifestyle behaviors appeared to significantly reduce risk for Alzheimer’s dementia, according to results of two longitudinal studies published in Neurology.

Clinicians should use caution when prescribing antipsychotics and benzodiazepines to treat patients with dementia because of an apparent increased risk for death, according to a study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

An academic detailing intervention was not associated with a significant reduction of antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes, according to results of a cluster randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.

Administering the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, via telehealth poses challenges, one of the tool’s developers told Healio Primary Care.

The FDA recently announced the approval of Tauvid, an IV injection that is used to help image a specific characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain known as tau pathology.

May has been commemorated as Older Americans Month since 1963, according to the Administration for Community Living.

Frequent internet use appeared associated with increased risk for social isolation among older adults, according to study results published in Ageing & Society.

A series of review articles found limited or inconsistent data supporting the accuracy of biomarkers and cognitive tests for diagnosing and differentiating Alzheimer’s disease, as well as drug treatments that minimally impacted functional decline.

Intimate partner violence remained prevalent among middle-aged and older women and was associated with morbidity in these populations, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of its top five most-viewed stories in April.