Effective Geriatric Medication Management Is Vital If Seniors Are To Receive Quality Health Care Studies show that an average senior takes about six prescriptions per day. Also taken daily is two to three non-prescription medications. Many take even more than that. This number of drugs routinely prescribed explains why so many [...]
Experts Are Cautiously Optimistic About Developing Treatments That Can Treat Or Significantly Delay The Progression of Alzheimer's, Helping All Involved In Aging Care. Is it possible that the race towards finding a treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s disease may be entering the home stretch? Maybe, as over $900 million in [...]
Pain Is A Problem in Senior Health Care, One That Affects An Estimated 100 Million Americans – More Than Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Cancer Combined. Pain is associated with a vast range of illness and injuries in senior health care. Sometimes, pain is a disease in and amongst itself. Some conditions may [...]
Behind A Dementia Diagnosis May Actually Lie A Treatable Condition. To his family, and even more importantly to his physician, the elderly man had all the signs of dementia and early Alzheimer’s disease. He shuffled with an unsteady gait, had started to lose his bladder function, and had trouble doing [...]
Research Provides A New Hope for Senior Care For Those With Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's is a brain disease that causes a slow decline in memory, thinking and reasoning skills. It’s been estimated that 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. As of now, it is the only one of the common [...]