Alzheimer’s Dementia: A Primer Plaques and Tangles, Amyloid deposits and Apo-E: Who can keep them straight? Unless you are a researcher, all you really need to know is ...
Preventing Dementia: What Works We'd all like to escape dementia in our old age. Over the past decade, numerous large scale epidemiological studies have been published singing the ...
Can Your Older Patient Drive Safely? Approximately 22 million older adults (78%) have valid drivers' licenses, and the number will grow until 2029 as the baby boomer generation ages.1 This dramatic change in demographics will be reflected in the driving population, ...
Psychotherapy for Late-Life Depression: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Practical Tips As the US population ages, mental health professionals find their patients aging as well. Over the past 3 decades, there has been a substantial increase in the number of clinical trials that have looked at the effects of psychosocial interventions on late-life depression.
Antidepressants: Risk vs Benefit in Depression Two recent publications provide clinically relevant information about the risk to benefit ratio of antidepressants for the treatment of MDD in youths, adults, and the elderly.
Substance Abuse in Aging and Elderly Adults: New Issues for Psychiatrists In 2009, the elderly constituted 12.9% of the US population. This translates to 39.6 million—a number that is growing.1 Perhaps as a result of generational stereotyping or ageism, the topic of substance abuse and dependence is rarely associated with the elderly.
Palliative Care in Older Adults: The Psychiatrist’s Role Rather than striving to halt, delay, or reverse disease progression or provide a cure, the goal of palliative care is to prevent and relieve suffering and to improve quality of life for people facing a serious, complex illness.
Teamwork: Collaborative Approach for Behavioral Problems in Patients With Dementia As the population of the United States ages, dementia and all its sequelae are becoming an ever-growing challenge for health care systems. In the United States, 5.3 million people have dementia, and by 2050 it is estimated that 14 million people will be afflicted.1-3 Unfortunately, in 90% of those patients with dementia, behavioral problems will develop that will need to be addressed.4
Diabetes-Related Risk Factors and Cognitive Aging Researchers from more than 2 dozen large-scale epidemiological studies have reported a link between type 2 diabetes mellitus and cognitive impairment, cognitive decline, and dementia.
