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Understanding Frailty and Dementia

Frailty and dementia are “closely linked,” explain Song and colleagues in a recent article published in JAMDA. In their study of 29,000+ nursing home...

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World Alzheimer’s Month: Challenging the Stigma

World Alzheimer’s Month this September kicks off a campaign to raise awareness and eliminate the stigma surrounding dementia, says Alzheimer’s Disease...

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Managing Huntington’s Disease in LTC

Managing Huntington’s Disease in LTC

Problems with swallowing, eating, speaking, and walking, along with cognitive changes and psychiatric disorders, often lead to admission to a skilled...

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How to Redirect Behaviors in Dementia

How to Redirect Behaviors in Dementia

Even though 95% of individuals diagnosed with dementia have no formal history of serious mental illness, nearly all patients will exhibit psychiatric...

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Anxiolytic Medications and Dementia Care

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) will ultimately affect nearly all patients living with dementia

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Anxiety and Depression in Dementia

Anxiety and Depression in Dementia

Anxiety and depression are common neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease. What are the causes and how do these symptoms manifest?

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Antipsychotic Use in Dementia: More Adverse Outcomes

Newly published research indicates that pneumonia and a range of adverse outcomes is associated with antipsychotic use among patients who have dementi...

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Dementia Care: Anticonvulsants Increase Stroke Risk

there has been increasing discussion of the use of anticonvulsant (antiepileptic) medications for nursing home residents living with dementia. One of...

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Dehydration, Cognitive Functioning, & ADLs

Dehydration is common among nursing home residents, and it bears both immediate and potentially, long-term associations with both cognitive health and...

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Women and Alzheimer’s Disease

Almost two-thirds of Americans living with Alzheimer’s are women. While women have a longer average lifespan, this does not fully explain the gender d...

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Quality of Life with Parkinson’s Disease

April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month, we focus attention on this illness that affects at least half a million Americans is the 2nd most commo...

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Health Disparities & Dementia

While it’s well understood that dementia is on the rise globally, certain demographics suffer a disproportionate burden. Minority Health Month draws a...

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