Category: Geriatrics

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Deprescribing is an effort underway among primary care physicians to completely assess all medicines a person is taking, including vitamins, supplements and over the counter medicines, and reduce that number to the fewest possible while still achieving therapeutic goals. Caleb …

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If you’re taking a number of medicines your physician may bring up the idea of  ‘deprescribing’ to you. That’s the idea that many of these medicines may no longer be needed, may not be providing enough benefit versus their potential …

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Anchor lead: Should you choose a hospital with a hospital at home program? Elizabeth Tracey reports Hospital at home, where hospital level care is delivered to people in their own home, is burgeoning nationally. Bruce Leff, a gerontologist at Johns …

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Anchor lead: Hospital level care at home is getting a boost across the country, Elizabeth Tracey reports Let’s say you needed to be hospitalized but you were given the option to receive your care at home rather than a hospital. …

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Anchor lead: How can a program called CAPABLE help elders age in place? Elizabeth Tracey reports CAPABLE is the name of an intervention that helps older people remain in their homes as they age, and it’s a win-win, a recent …

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