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AAGP
AAGP is now accepting early investigator and new research poster proposals for the 2016 Annual Meeting to be held March 17-20 in Washington, D.C. The theme of the meeting is New Perspectives on Brain Health and Aging. Be a part of this interdisciplinary educational event and submit your poster proposals before Oct. 16.
Learn More and Submit Abstracts
Poster Deadline: Oct. 16, 2015
The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
When someone has dementia, it can be hard to count money, make financial decisions or even put in an order at a restaurant.
With the number of those suffering from the disease growing, there are efforts to help make their lives easier and have more communities become "dementia friendly."
The Wisconsin city of Watertown and the state of Minnesota are helping lead the push nationally.
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News Medical
Using data from their detailed analysis of senior medical services offered by nearly 5,000 U.S. hospitals before the 2009 passage of the Affordable Care Act, researchers led by a Johns Hopkins geriatrician say they have developed a Senior Care Services Scale that suggests a serious "mismatch" between what's offered and what older adult populations need.
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Medical Daily
What does the day of the week have to do with diagnosing delirium? Plenty, according to researchers at Penn State. In a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, they say two simple questions may have the ability to identify the condition with a 93 percent success rate.
Delirium is a change in consciousness that can be frightening for both the person suffering from it and any onlookers.
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Medscape
The greatest threat to older patients' safety in primary care is the risk posed by treatment itself, not treatment error or negligence, according to an analysis of no-fault claims data from New Zealand.
These findings were published in the October issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
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The Washington Post
Aggressive treatment of high blood pressure can sharply cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths in people 50 and older, according to a landmark federal study that urges doctors to bring their patients' blood pressure well below the commonly recommended target. The new research advises people with high blood pressure to keep their "systolic" pressure — the top number in the reading that healthcare providers routinely tell patients — at 120 or below.
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UCLA Newsroom
Alzheimer's disease, long thought to be a single disease, really consists of three distinct subtypes, according to a UCLA study. The finding could lead to more highly targeted research and, eventually, new treatments for the debilitating neurological disorder, which robs people of their memories. The study further found that one of the three variations, the cortical subtype, appears to be fundamentally a different condition than the other two, said Dr. Dale Bredesen, the study’s author, a UCLA professor of neurology and member of the Easton Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease Research.
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MD Magazine
A study in Translational Psychiatry has identified two genetic variations – single nucleotide polymorphisms – that may predict response to antidepressant drugs in Korean patients suffering from major depressive disorder. This isn't the first study attempting to identify candidate genes related to antidepressant response, considered by many to be the "Holy Grail" of genetic research related to depression.
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HealthDay via WebMD
Keeping blood sugar levels in check may have a protective effect against dementia in people who have type 2 diabetes, new Swedish research suggests.
"The positive association between [average blood sugar levels] and risk of dementia in fairly young patients with type 2 diabetes indicates a potential for prevention of dementia with improved blood sugar control," study author Dr. Aidin Rawshani, from the National Diabetes Register and Institute of Medicine in Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues wrote.
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TIME
Vitamin D is a controversial topic among doctors, mainly because studies about its health effects have been so conflicting. While vitamin D is critical for many body systems, including bones and the brain, recent studies that have tested these assumptions haven't been reassuring. In March, for example, a large study found that vitamin D supplements did not lower the risk of falls, or their resulting injuries, in the elderly.
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