WASHINGTON – Members of a national advisory council on Alzheimer’s disease have identified preliminary goals and specific recommendations for a national strategic plan to slow or even halt the expected rise in new cases.

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Nearly one in five patients with advanced cognitive and functional impairment who are in their final days of life is subjected to a burdensome, potentially unnecessary transition in health care, such as being moved from a nursing... »

Advance directives specifying that patients don’t want aggressive treatment at the end of life limit interventions and their costs only in regions where aggressive end-of-life care is common, according to a report in JAMA.

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Overall, the American health care system improved its palliative care grade from a “C” to a “B,” according to the study “America’s Care of Serious Illness: a State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nation’s... »

SAN DIEGO – The World Health Organization’s widely used, Web-based fracture risk assessment tool, known as FRAX, seriously underestimates the risk of major osteoporotic and hip fractures in patients with diabetes, according to a... »

SAN DIEGO – The risk of ischemic stroke more than triples in patients with a 10-year history of diabetes, according to results of the population-based Northern Manhattan Study.

Ischemic stroke has long been associated with... »

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – Prophylactic use of probiotics appears to reduce the odds of developing antibiotic- associated diarrhea by 60%, based on data from a meta-analysis of more than 3,000 patients. The findings were presented at... »

Mortality risk doubles during the year after hip fracture among women aged 65 years and older, then returns to baseline in many women. But this pattern doesn’t apply in older women, according to a report published online in... »

SAN DIEGO – Postmenopausal women who are being treated for low bone mineral density have nearly five- fold the response rate to bisphosphonate therapy if they maintain a serum vitamin D level of 33 ng/mL or higher than they do... »

Evacuations and Mortality Risk

An evacuation of nursing home residents during a hurricane increased their likelihood of subsequent death and hospitalization, according to an observational study of 36,389 residents exposed to... »

Stop by the AMDA product booth at Long Term Care Medicine – 2012 and find products that complement and supplement information from various educational programs at the meeting. AMDA has paired up products and programs to enhance... »