Articles Tagged With: Aging
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Can Vitamin D Supplementation Slow Cellular Aging?
In a large randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, vitamin D3 supplementation modestly but significantly slowed the rate of leukocyte telomere shortening over four years.
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Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Late-Life Brain Health
The major modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases are delineated in Life’s Essential 8 (LE8), developed by the American Heart Association. These risk factors are blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol, body mass index, smoking, physical activity, diet, and sleep duration. The investigators in this analysis of two large databases in the United Kingdom and the United States demonstrated that cardiovascular health, as defined by the LE8, will also predict brain health later in life.
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Older Physicians May Need Attention to Ensure Patient Safety
Research indicates that some older physicians may pose a threat to patient safety, but only a small number of healthcare organizations are developing strategies to require screening and additional actions to address these concerns. Policies are inconsistent among those organizations.
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Working with Private Care Management Professionals to Help Aging Patients
While inflation continues to be a part of the economic landscape of 2024, aging healthcare consumers and their families are considering their options for managing care. With that, private care management, paid for by the consumer, is becoming more popular. These private care management professionals work with clients and their families to design a care plan to carry them through the various stages of aging.
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Slow-Wave Sleep and Risk of Dementia
In this long-term observational study of sleep efficiency in the Framingham Heart Study population, researchers found a strong correlation between a decline in duration of slow-wave sleep during aging and the risk of incident dementia from all causes. However, a direct cause-and-effect relationship cannot be determined from this observational study.
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Poor Cardiovascular Health a Predictor for Premature Brain Aging
Worse cardiovascular health at age 36 years can predict worse brain aging and associated cognitive problems later in life.
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Inflammatory Foods Could Accelerate Brain Aging
In the Framingham Offspring cohort of subjects, those with a higher index of inflammatory foods recorded smaller brain volume, less grey matter.
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Loneliness and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence
Loneliness appears to be an independent risk factor for type 2 diabetes, although further research to identify the causal relationship between loneliness and type 2 diabetes development is needed.
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Falls Injure Millions of Americans, Cost $50 Billion Each Year
Recent studies challenge assumptions about how case managers and other healthcare professionals can reduce fall risk among older patients with comorbidities and recent hospital stays. The key is to focus on fall risk from just before a person is hospitalized to weeks after hospitalization.
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Airway Management in Older Adult Trauma Patients
Older adult trauma patients present unique challenges for the emergency care provider. Airway anatomic and physiologic changes associated with age may pose difficulties in the setting of trauma and may affect the overall care of the patient. Understanding the geriatric variations and developing alternative strategies is critical in the acute care setting.