Dementia

‘You can’t manage what you don’t measure’: Hospitals slow to recognize increasing number of dementia patients

In our hospitals, we have no systems in place to identify people living with dementia, measure how many there are or how their dementia impacts our care. And hospitals are not implementing programs to improve.

Intermittent Fasting: Changing the tides of dementia

IF has been shown to be an effective intervention against obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer. But what about dementia?

When a gym becomes a home: Highlighting the need for long-term care reform

Can cannabis reduce agitation in dementia patients?

Rapid fire: High Value Care

Rapid fire: Geriatric Medicine

History Repeats Itself! Solanezumab for Alzheimer’s & Repeat Vaccination to Prevent Influenza

Does hearing loss increase the risk of dementia?

Is this aging – or Alzheimer’s disease?

iPods help fight depression, anxiety in people with Alzheimer’s

Is research on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia being oversold?

REPLAY – Clearing Confusion in Palliative Care: Goals of Care Interventions for Dementia and Antipsychotics for Delirium

Why palliative care, not feeding tubes, is best for advanced dementia patients

Clearing Confusion in Palliative Care: Antipsychotics for Delirium and Goals of Care Interventions

Canada is not investing enough in dementia research

Are antipsychotic drugs risky for dementia patients?

If you build it, they will come! – ICU beds, dementia and quality of care in MI outcomes

Alzheimer’s drugs may help ease symptoms – at least for a while

Why don’t doctors screen more for frailty?

Proud to be Here: Declining Rates of Dementia and EPO-Agents for Anemia in Kidney Disease