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AAGP
The Board of Directors welcomes newly elected Member-in-Training Board Member Oliver Glass, MD. Dr. Glass is currently a PGY-4 resident at East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina. He was a 2016 AAGP/GMHF Honors Scholar and presented two posters at the AAGP meeting in March 2016. He is also the Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry's Residents' Journal and the North Carolina Psychiatric Association's Member-in-Training on their Executive Council. Oliver plans to join Emory University for a geriatric psychiatry fellowship starting July 2017. Please congratulate Dr. Glass and welcome him to his new leadership role with AAGP.
AAGP
AAGP offers several awards to recognize excellence in the field of late-life mental health care. The awards will be presented at the Opening Plenary at the Annual Meeting, March 24-27, 2017 in Dallas, Texas. Do you know someone deserving of such recognition? Is it you? Learn more about the awards, criteria and nominations process at http://www.aagponline.org/awards. The deadline is November 4, 2016.
PsychCentral
New research finds that older people are even more willing that young adults to take medical risks if they perceive the benefits to be high enough. The discovery was surprising as we tend to think that older people are likely to avoid taking risks, especially compared with younger people. Investigators discovered, however, that when confronted with decision on risky medical treatments, such as vaccines and chemotherapy, older people are even more willing than younger adults to take medical risks if the benefits are aligned.
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UPI
Elderly adults who regularly exercise are less likely to suffer a disability — and if they do, they tend to recover faster, a new clinical trial finds.
Researchers found that when they got sedentary older adults into an exercise routine, it curbed their risk of suffering a disabling injury or illness. And those who did develop a physical disability were one-third more likely to recover from it, compared to seniors who remained sedentary.
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HealthDay via WebMD
As people age, the harmful effects of heavy drinking can take a toll on key brain functions, such as memory, attention and learning, a new study shows.
Researchers led by Adam Woods, of the University of Florida's department of aging and geriatric research, asked 31 men and 35 women to complete a series of comprehensive brain tests.
The volunteers were divided into groups based on their level of alcohol intake: heavy drinkers, moderate drinkers or non-drinkers.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 Although sadness is something we all experience from time to time, depression interferes with daily life and normal functioning, causing pain not only for us but also for those who care about us. Major depressive disorder affects approximately 16 million people in the United States and 121 million people worldwide. While many patients respond to antidepressant treatment, 10 to 30 percent do not improve or only partially respond. But hope may be on the horizon.
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WVXU-FM
About six million Americans age 65 and older experience symptoms of depression. Though common among the elderly, depression is not a normal part of aging.
Many seniors may not recognize the signs, such as loss of interest in socializing and hobbies, sadness and despair, sleep problems and neglecting personal care. Various medical conditions such as thyroid disorder and heart disease can also cause depression directly or as a reaction to the illness.
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Medical Xpress
In recent years, physicians' orders for life sustaining treatments (POLST) forms have been seen as an important way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly or terminally ill patients who cannot speak for themselves. But while the goal of filling out POLST forms is to let providers know patients' preferences regarding life-sustaining treatments, the information they contain is often ambiguous, a new University at Buffalo study has found.
Published online in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, the study is called "Decisions by Default: Incomplete and Contradictory POLST in Emergency Care."
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McKnight's Senior Living
Prescription opioids have garnered much media attention in recent years in the United States as use and abuse of the pain medications continue to rise. But an important community of people is taking opioids, and the effects on them have not been followed as closely: seniors.
Indeed, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries last year received at least one prescription for an opioid, such as oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Vicodin) and fentanyl.
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Daily Mail
For many people, forgetfulness and memory loss will be an inevitable part of growing older.
A lucky few, however, will still be able to recall events with the clarity of those still in their youth.
Now new research has unravelled how these so called "super-agers" are able to perform these feats of memory — their brains stay young.
The study showed that while most elderly people suffer shrinkage in key parts of their brain with age, the brains of super-agers look like those of someone in their 20s.
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NPR
What rats can remember may help people who forget.
Researchers are reporting evidence that rats possess "episodic memories," the kind of memories that allow us to go back in time and recall specific events. These memories are among the first to disappear in people who develop Alzheimer's disease.
The finding, which appears in Current Biology, suggests that rats could offer a better way to test potential drugs for Alzheimer's. Right now, most of these drugs are tested in mice.
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