Nursing Home Care For Treating Dementia May Be Better Than Home Care: Study
A new study finds that dementia patients treated at home may be more prone to injury and to suffer from unmet medical needs.…
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A new study finds that dementia patients treated at home may be more prone to injury and to suffer from unmet medical needs.…
A new study indicates that a broad category of commonly used drugs may increase the risk of dementia by nearly 50% for some older patients.…
The FDA is warning against the practice of receiving plasma infusions from young donors to prevent conditions associated with aging, because they have not been proven safe or effective and are not approved medical treatments.…
A JAMA editorial calls on doctors and consumers to combat “pseudomedicine” claims of dietary supplements that allegedly promote brain health and claim to treat dementia, Alzheimer’s and other illnesses.…
A wrongful death lawsuit claims that an Ohio nursing home failed to report a missing resident to police, resulting in him being found frozen to death two days later.…
A new study warns that giving dementia patients trazodone could be as risky as giving them atypical antipsychotics.…
A new study links smoking to an increased risk of dementia, and quitting smoking to lowering that risk.…
A new study warns that some antidepressants and Parkinson’s disease drugs may increase the risk of dementia with long-term use.…
Brain injuries may increase the risk of dementia later in life, according to the findings of a new study.…
A new report by Human Rights Watch details rampant overuse of antipsychotics in U.S. nursing homes, which are used as a form of chemical restraint on patients with dementia.…