Early diagnosis of dementia is a challenging issue for primary care physicians, largely due to concerns arising from the fragile balance of harms and benefits, the imprecision of some assessment tools, psychological distress, reduced quality of life and financial burden. Multiple countries including Australia, the [...]
Medical researchers are calling for restraint on the use of aggressive life-saving treatments for frail elderly patients at the end of their lives, saying the focus should instead be placed on making patients' last days comfortable and dignified
Benzodiazepine use in older adults has been associated with a number of harms, including greater risk of falls, hip fracture, impaired cognition, substance abuse disorder, and overdose. This study was thus interested in annual trends in benzodiazepine incidence and prevalence in older adults between 2010 [...]
New research published in the Journal of Gerontology has found that there are new ways to characterise older people who take multiple medicines and those who are open to “deprescribing”. This is where medicines are reviewed with a view to reducing or stopping less [...]
New research published in the Journal of Gerontology has found that there are new ways to characterise older people who take multiple medicines and those who are open to “deprescribing”. This is where medicines are reviewed with a view to reducing or stopping less [...]