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Skilled Nursing Facility Can Lower the Need for Long-Term Care for Elderly

Skilled Nursing Facility Can Lower the Need for Long-Term Care for Elderly

Older individuals are often admitted to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after being discharged from the hospital and this step greatly influences their need for a long-term care facility af...

Wildfire Smoke can Cause Heart, Stroke Ailments Among Older Adults

Wildfire Smoke can Cause Heart, Stroke Ailments Among Older Adults

Wildfire smoke can affect people, especially older adults and can send them to hospital emergency rooms (ERs) with heart, stroke-related complaints, reveals a new study. The new researc...

Blood Pressure Drugs and Its One Unusual Benefit- Dementia Prevention

Blood Pressure Drugs and Its One Unusual Benefit- Dementia Prevention

Dementia was found to have been prevented in older individuals of African-American origin when they used commonly prescribed anti-hypertensive medication to manage their hypertension, finds ...

Is Frailty Associated to Future Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality?

Is Frailty Associated to Future Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality?

All frailty scores are associated with future mortality, and some are linked to cardiovascular disease but none to cancer, shows data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing published ...

Fateful Life Events can Accelerate Brain Aging

Fateful Life Events can Accelerate Brain Aging

Common major midlife adverse events, such as divorce or death of a family member, accelerate brain aging in older adults, reveals research led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, profe...

Healthy Older Adults Grow Just as Many New Brain Cells as Young People

Healthy Older Adults Grow Just as Many New Brain Cells as Young People

Healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger people, shows new study for the first time that. There has been controversy over whether adult humans gro...

Multiple Chronic Illnesses May Up Risk of Death in Older Adults

Multiple Chronic Illnesses May Up Risk of Death in Older Adults

Older adults with heart failure who have multiple chronic conditions and difficulty in performing daily activities were found to be at a higher risk of death, reveals a new study. H...

Why Daily Muscle Stretching Exercise Is Important for Elderly People

Why Daily Muscle Stretching Exercise Is Important for Elderly People

Routine muscle stretching exercises benefit elderly people with weak muscles, finds a recent study in the Journal of Physiology . Despite the well-known beneficial effects of exercise, t...

Can Light Sensitivity Influence Our Ability to Sleep When We Get Older?

Can Light Sensitivity Influence Our Ability to Sleep When We Get Older?

Sleep disruptions occur when our ability to reset the circadian clock decreases with age when exposed to light, finds a new study. The findings of this study are published in the Journal of ...

Walking Speed and Dementia Linked: Study

Walking Speed and Dementia Linked: Study

Older adults who have slower walking speeds and experienced a greater decline in their walking speed over time, were at increased risk for dementia, revealed study published in the Journal ...

False Memories in Older Adults may be Induced by Inability to Remember Details

False Memories in Older Adults may be Induced by Inability to Remember Details

A new study finds that older people rely on schematic memory that helps them remember the gist of an event but not necessarily the details. This inability to remember details called false me...

New Non Surgical Method can Treat Knee Pain Resulting From Osteoarthritis

New Non Surgical Method can Treat Knee Pain Resulting From Osteoarthritis

Geniculate artery embolization (GAE), a Minimally invasive nonsurgical treatment may help improve the quality of life of people with osteoarthritis. This can be done by reducing knee pain as...

Quality of Healthcare Lower in Older Adults Who Do Not Have a Personal Doctor

Quality of Healthcare Lower in Older Adults Who Do Not Have a Personal Doctor

Nearly 5 percent of older adults on Medicare do not have a personal doctor. This group also scores lower on measures of healthcare quality, according to a study published in Medical Care . ...

New Memory Strategy to Help Older Adults Developed

New Memory Strategy to Help Older Adults Developed

Older adults often experience awkward situation of meeting someone and then forgetting their name shortly after. Baycrest researchers have discovered a new method to resolve this problem by...

Why Do People With Dementia Approach Doctors Only After It's Too Late?

Why Do People With Dementia Approach Doctors Only After It's Too Late?

Patients with dementia generally do not consult physicians just after the onset of the disease; they tend to live with it before seeking diagnosis and treatment, finds a new study. The findi...

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