Tag: Seniors

Watching TV linked to increased risk, while using a computer linked to decreased risk, for incident dementia regardless of physical activity level

Patients wearing Smart Socks had lower fall rate compared with historical fall rate

Taking eight or more medications strongly associated with frailty; odds of being prefrail, frail increased with each additional med

Poll suggests ~61 percent of people older than 50 years who have gotten at least one dose of vaccine say they would get an updated booster

Only 18 percent of older adults had talked to a health care provider about integrative medicine strategies

Survey of sexual and gender-minority people identifies discrimination in the health care system as barrier to advance care planning

Incident fraud victimization tied to worse BP metrics, particularly among men

Link between childhood cognitive ability and cognitive state in later life modified by cognitive reserve index based on lifetime activities

In the year following start of dialysis, stabilization with mean changes of +2 and –2 seen in mental and physical component summaries

Findings independent of cardiovascular risk factors and APOE genotype