geriatrics (elder care) Archives - Top Personal Health

CDC Chief Urges Michigan to ‘Close Things Down’ Amid Spike

April 13, 2021 2019 Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, adherence, adherence to medication issues for patients, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Vaccine, COVID-19 vaccine, disaster, disaster medicine, elderly/concerns of older adults, geriatrics (elder care), HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, health car, Hospitals, Human coronavirus 229E, Human coronavirus HKU1, Human coronavirus OC43, inpatient care, michigan, outbreak:, vaccine, wuhan coronavirus

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The director

Read more

Despite COVID, Americans Still Help Others With Medical Bills

April 5, 2021 antigens, biologic therapy, cancer, cancer risk, carcinoma, diabetes mellitus, elderly/concerns of older adults, financial hardship, financing, geriatrics (elder care), malignant neoplasia, pandemic, poverty, practice management, salary compensation, social determinants of health, Social Issues

The number of Americans donating to crowdfunding campaigns for medical bills during 2020 held steady relative to previous years, despite

Read more

Suicide Risk Jumps Soon After Dementia Diagnosis

March 22, 2021 Alzheimer Disease, Alzheimer’s disease, antigens, biologic therapy, Connecticut, Dementia, Depression, frontal and temporal lobe dementia, geriatric psychiatry, geriatrics (elder care), mental disorder, mental illness, old age psychiatry, psychiatric disorder, psychiatric illness, psychiatry (old age), suicide

Older patients recently diagnosed with dementia are at a significantly increased risk for suicide compared to their peers without dementia.

Read more

Whole-Genome Sequencing Emerging for Routine Cancer Care

March 11, 2021 acute leukemia, acute myeloblastic leukemia, Books, cancer, carcinoma, DNA sequencing, elderly/concerns of older adults, Genetic, Genetics, genomic medicine, Genomics, geriatrics (elder care), Hematologic Malignancies, hematology, journals, leukemia, malignant neoplasia, mds, medical literature, medicine (genomic), Missouri, myelodysplastic syndrome, physician assistants, Precision Medicine, textbooks, Washington

Almost 20 years after the human genome was first mapped, whole-genome sequencing might finally be ready to enter routine cancer

Read more

After Year of Isolation, Vaccinated Older Americans Start to Reclaim Their Lives

March 10, 2021 (COVID-19), 2019 Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, Corona Virus, Coronavirus Vaccine, COVID-19 vaccine, covid19, Elderly, elderly/concerns of older adults, geriatric medicine, geriatrics (elder care), HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, Human coronavirus 229E, Human coronavirus HKU1, Human coronavirus OC43, Isolation, older adults, Quarantine, senior citizens, seniors, vaccine, Vaccines, wuhan coronavirus

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Precisely two weeks after receiving her second COVID-19 vaccine shot, Sylvia Baer spent the day getting

Read more

Early Motor Signal Specific to Alzheimer’s Identified

February 25, 2021 Alzheimer Disease, Alzheimer’s disease, biological marker, biomarker, biostatistics, brain, cognitive impairment, Dementia, elderly/concerns of older adults, Epidemiology, frontal and temporal lobe dementia, gait abnormality, gait disorder, gait disturbance, geriatrics (elder care), lewy body dementia, mci, Memory, memory problems, mild cognitive impairment, neurodegenerative disease, walking abnormality

Abnormal walking patterns may be an early indicator of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and may distinguish it from

Read more