Aging
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PREVENTING FALLS
The United States Preventive Services Task force (USPSTF) is front and center once again. This time with good intentions and…
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DOES COGNITIVE REHAB HELP DEMENTIA PATIENTS?
The number of people living with dementia is expected to increase two-and-a-half times between now and 2050! The number quoted…
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MENOPAUSE “SHOULD NOT BE MEDICALIZED”
“Medicalized” is a word I have never used or even seen used before. It is used here in the context…
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BEST AND SAFEST DRUGS FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Drugs designed to improve the dementia found in Alzheimer’s sufferers have not lived up to their “billing.” By that, I…
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NOCTURIA: A NIGHTTIME INTRUSION
What person over the age of 65 doesn’t waken at night to go to the bathroom? I dare say it’s…
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HYDROCEPHALUS—“Water on the Brain”
Recently, I’ve had occasion to know two people who were diagnosed with Hydrocephalus. Today, this is still a serious, relatively…
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DIAGNOSING ALZHEIMER’S JUST GOT EASIER
In many previous blogs about Alzheimer’s Disease and dementias, I have said that Alzheimer’s was a diagnosis of exclusion. That…
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”DEMENTIA DEEMED HIGHLY PREVENTABLE”
When you learn that in the United States, 2 out of 3 (67%) patients with dementia are women, that women…
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HOT FLASHES: MENOPAUSAL MISERY
I’m not a woman so I’ve never experienced the misery that comes with “the change of life,” but I have…
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PRIORITIES IN GERIATRIC CARE
In spite of statistics that show the average life expectancy of Americans has been declining over the past 5-10 years,…
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