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Healthcare Informatics
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston aimed to analyze the impact of telepsychology and same-room care on functioning, satisfaction and perception of care based on trial of psychotherapy delivered via telemedicine or same-room care to elderly patients with depression.
For the study, researchers randomly assigned 241 depressed elderly veterans to receive eight weeks of psychotherapy either by visiting a clinician's office or by using in-home videoconferencing technology. All of them could also take antidepressants.
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News Medical
What are the secrets of well-being of populations with increasing elderly people, the key elements to help them to stay longer socially and professionally active and thus also to help young people, by supporting the new generations? What are the best welfare models to support the aging process without creating inequities between different generations? How to ensure healthcare for the elderly and allocate resources for new families, encouraging birthrates, curb inequality in terms of life expectancy related to different education levels and socioeconomic status?
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Psychiatry Advisor
Electroconvulsive therapy continues to be an important treatment for preventing relapse of severe depression and sustaining mood improvements, especially in the geriatric community, according to research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
The PRIDE (Prolonging Remission in Depressed Elderly, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01028508) study, which began in 2009 under funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, was a randomized, multicenter study that contrasted 2 post-ECT continuation treatment strategies.
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Health Newsline
Vision loss, cataracts, cataract formation, depressive symptoms, depression, cataract and depression
Just as our physical strength our vision also decreases or changes with the age. Some age-related eye changes are quite normal posing no risk to health such as like cataract, while some are very serious eye diseases affecting the quality of life, such as glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
Even though cataracts are classified as a normal aging change that can usually be corrected with cataract surgery, it can increase depression in elderly, warns a new study.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 High expectations and hopes surrounded Eli Lilly and Company's drug solanezumab. Solanezumab is a humanized monoclonal IbG1 antibody, and it was targeting an amyloid beta peptide with the goal of slowing the effects of Alzheimer's disease. The promise shown in early phases of research was not shown during a third phase of testing, Lilly announced recently. The company has no plans to seek regulatory approval for the drug. But hope is not lost.
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Falls can prove very disabling for the elderly, and new research suggests that measurements of healthy older adults' brain activity may help determine their future risk.
"Our findings suggest that changes in brain activity that influence walking may be present long before people exhibit any sign of walking difficulty," said study lead author Dr. Joe Verghese. He directs the Montefiore Einstein Center for the Aging Brain in New York City.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 A research group in Boston recently used an olfactometer to determine the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, and they published the results of this study in the recent issue of Annals of Neurology. Those in the Alzheimer's disease community have been aware for many years of the deficits in olfactory function early in the disease process. The olfactory system is also impacted in Parkinson's disease. But testing of olfactory deficits can be cumbersome and difficult to interpret.
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