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Too Many Medicines
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Anchor lead: How often is someone with dementia overmedicated? Elizabeth Tracey reports Polypharmacy refers to someone taking a multitude of medicines, with a recent study demonstrating that in people with dementia, polypharmacy with drugs that affect the brain occurs in …
EDs for Elders
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Anchor lead: Should specialized emergency departments exist for geriatric patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports Emergency departments are frequently chaotic places, and for older people may make the experience of being in one traumatic. A recent study suggests that specialized EDs should …
Policy Change
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Anchor lead: Barriers to universal access to telestroke services need political will to overcome, Elizabeth Tracey reports With Zoom and other technologies employed nationally, why can’t some people who have strokes receive expert opinions on treatment and management via telestroke? …
Making Telemedicine Work
Covid and Cancer
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Anchor lead: Does having cancer make people more susceptible to Covid? Elizabeth Tracey reports Some people with cancer are more likely to become infected with Sars-CoV2 and develop Covid-19 than people who don’t have cancer, a very large analysis reveals. …