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AAGP
Awards nominations are due Nov. 4. For more information on the awards and criteria, please visit http://www.aagponline.org/awards.
AAGP
AAGP Members fully fund the Scholars Program: the amount of money we receive in donations directly influences the number of Scholars we are able to invite. Last year GMHF raised $67,500 in donations that supported 27 residents and 10 medical students. Donations rose through 2014, but have been in a considerable decline over the last two years. To maximize our ability to encourage the next generation of medical students and residents to consider careers in geriatric psychiatry, we have set a fundraising goal of $100,000. This amount would double the number of trainees we can help. Please donate today. The deadline is Nov. 30.
National Institute on Aging
A team of delirium experts led by Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) at Hebrew SeniorLife, have been awarded a projected $3.7 million grant over five years. This award is the first of its kind from the National Institute on Aging / National Institutes of Health to build an interdisciplinary collaborative network of delirium researchers nationally and internationally. "We are delighted to support the launch of this team effort to build a research infrastructure advancing our understanding of how delirium impacts the aging brain," said NIA program officer Molly Wagster, Ph.D. "This highly collaborative and innovative effort promises to inform delirium research and clinical care for years to come."
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The Washington Post
Columnist Joe Davidson writes: "There's a decent chance that sooner or later, you or a loved one will need a personal-care attendant.
I've already been there, having to arrange personal in-home care for my mother before she died. Fortunately, most of the attendants we hired were good. That's not the case with the miscreants described in a report released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General."
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Medscape
Antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), can significantly disrupt sleep architecture in elderly patients and may contribute to early signs of neurodegeneration that can progress to dementia, new research shows.
"We take into account other side effects of antidepressants, including weight gain and sexual side effects, but we are less concerned about sleep, especially when we use the SSRIs," Muhammad Tahir, MD, psychiatry resident, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, told Medscape Medical News.
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The Guardian
By our habits, shall ye know us. Every home has its rituals, its small daily ceremonies, and none more so perhaps than the homes of the elderly; the kettle always boiled for visitors regardless of whether they want tea, the radio religiously activated for The Archers, the dog put out last thing at night. When you're alone, routine is comforting, which is why the old and the housebound cleave to the familiar: lunch at one, bed after News at Ten. It’s easy for the young to mock. But what if that boring, predictable routine could one day be a lifesaver?
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Psychiatry Advisor
Rates of suicide for both genders increase significantly with advancing age, with the 85-and-older age group being at the highest risk. In the United States, this age pattern is observed particularly among men. Although mood disorders are known risk factors, it has been proposed that symptoms of depression alone cannot adequately explain late-life self-harm and suicidal behavior. For example, psychological autopsy studies show that major depression is present in approximately 50 percent of suicides. Comorbid psychiatric and physical health problems, however, are frequently observed among older adults.
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Science Daily
Researchers have prevented the development of Alzheimer's disease in mice by using a virus to deliver a specific gene into the brain.
The early-stage findings, by scientists from Imperial College London, open avenues for potential new treatments for the disease.
In the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team used a type of modified virus to deliver a gene to brain cells.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 We're so accepting, as a culture. Because of the age in which we live, one such issue we seem to have openly accepted is ransomware's ever-increasing influence over healthcare. We seem to have resigned ourselves to the fact that these attacks on our data are simply an inconvenience of the modern day. In a short amount of time, ransomware has grown from fringe cyberattacks to a widespread epidemic across all industries — but, most importantly, healthcare is being hit the hardest.
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Medical News Today
The risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in later life is increased for individuals with high blood pressure, especially middle-aged adults. This is the conclusion of a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published in the journal Hypertension. Around 75 million adults — or 1 in 3 adults — in the United States have high blood pressure, or hypertension.
Some well-established complications of high blood pressure include stroke, heart attack, and heart failure. Increasingly, researchers have uncovered strong evidence of a link between hypertension and cognitive decline.
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Houston Chronicle
Suicide is a hidden epidemic among the elderly.
We think of suicides as involving young people — especially in the case of men. But, in fact, rates of suicide increase with age. Actually killing oneself becomes more common with aging, in part, because older people are more deliberate in their plans, and their plans are more lethal.
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