Most older adults prioritize retaining the ability to bathe, dress, walk, and perform household tasks independently as they age. Yet much remains to be understood about the causes of disability among this age group. In a new Yale study, ...
Telemedicine use in 2023 reduced monthly carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of up to 130,000 gas operated vehicles or recycling up to 4 million trash bags, suggesting it could have a positive effect on climate change
Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans. Participants in cooperatives experienced more respect, control, job support, and compensation than their counterparts in traditional care services.
Most patients with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD) experience the gradual onset and progression of cognitive symptoms, leading to decline over years or decades. However, in a small subset of patients, symptoms begin rapidly, leading to dementia within one year and complete incapacitation within two years of symptom onset.
Stroke survivors who have attended some level of higher education may face even steeper mental declines, according to a study led by Michigan Medicine. The findings suggest that attending higher education may enable people to retain greater cognitive ability until a critical threshold of brain injury is reached after a stroke.
Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests.
Researchers from Cleveland Clinic鈥檚 Genome Center outlined the pathway human herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV1) can use to contribute to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease in aging brains. In a report published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, investigators also share two FDA-approved, commercially available drugs that reverse this pathway in a laboratory setting. The findings are the first concrete evidence to support the previously controversial link between human herpesviruses (HHVs) and Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.
U.S. outpatient prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin increased 2- to 10-fold above pre-pandemic rates, respectively, to treat COVID-19, despite strong evidence disproving their effectiveness.
The number of family caregivers supporting older adults living in home and residential-care settings increased 32%, from 18.2 million to 24.1 million, between 2011 and 2022, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Michigan鈥檚 Institute for Social Research.
Nearly seven million Americans are living with dementia, and the number of individuals with cognitive impairment is expected to rise with the current acceleration of population aging.
Improved patterns of anti-diabetic medication use and declining rates of various life-threatening acute diabetes complications are closing the disparities gap for American Indian and Alaska Native populations with Type 2 diabetes.
A Wayne State University School of Medicine faculty member has been awarded a total of $2.3 million by the National Institute on Aging of the National institutes of Health for two new, concurrent projects that both address questions related to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, a progressive, age-related degenerative brain disease characterized by memory problems, impaired judgment, cognitive issues and changes in personality.
People in early middle age who have poor sleep quality, including having difficulty falling or staying asleep, have more signs of poor brain health in late middle age, according to a study published in the October 23, 2024, online issue of Neurology庐, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
New research led by Florida State University College of Medicine faculty quantified the association between loneliness and dementia by analyzing data from more than 600,000 people around the world 鈥� the largest study of its kind. The meta-analysis of 21 longitudinal studies showed that experiencing feelings of loneliness increased the risk of developing dementia by 31%.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been awarded two grants by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to train graduate students on Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) research and commercialization. NIA is one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary federal agency supporting and conducting AD research.
Psychiatric drugs are reported to be about 50% more effective in clinical trials funded by the drug鈥檚 manufacturer than when trials of the same drug are sponsored by other groups, new research shows.
A study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) found the risk of developing Parkinson鈥檚 disease was 76 percent higher among those with a history of damage to the lining of their upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract than among those without.
Vaginal estrogen cream, which is commonly prescribed to help women after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse (POP), did not prevent a recurrence of the condition, according to results of a multicenter clinical trial led by UT Southwestern Medical Center. However, the medication did reduce symptoms of vaginal atrophy. The findings, reported in JAMA, could lead to new ways to improve outcomes of prolapse repairs, the study authors said.
Needs related to housing, transportation, food, social support and more can be identified through AI/ML techniques.
People with chronic pain who take opioids have trouble finding multimodal pain care; insurance and provider education changes are needed, experts say.
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