Category: Geriatrics

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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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Anchor lead: Can a program called CAPABLE help elders age in place? Elizabeth Tracey reports Older people overwhelmingly say they want to remain in their own homes as they age, and a program called CAPABLE, developed by Sarah Szanton in …

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Anchor lead: Social isolation may have much to do will poor health in older people, Elizabeth Tracey reports Having few social interactions is increasingly associated with poor health outcomes, many studies are reporting, and the problem is especially acute for …

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