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15/05/2025

While women tend to suffer from Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, broken heart syndrome, more than men, it is deadlier for men.

A large-scale U.S. study reveals that Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—also known as broken heart syndrome—continues to carry a high risk of death and severe complications, with no improvement in outcomes from 2016 to 2020.

26/03/2025

Insights into diet, activity, and aging.

In two longitudinal cohorts followed for 30 years, the associations of eight different dietary patterns with healthy aging—encompassing cognitive, physical and mental health—were studied, identifying food constituents linked to greater or lesser odds of healthy aging.

07/01/2025

For those close to caregivers, this is not news. But reminders are important.

Research increases scrutiny over levels of state support for adults who look after children and elderly relatives

16/12/2024

Winter Blues are real. explains about Seasonal Affective Disorder https://mayocl.in/4fnsrBM

Oddly, it's not unique to winter. A change in season can impact you whatever the season.

This type of depression is related to changes in seasons and begins and ends at about the same times every year.

04/12/2024

America’s Readiness to Meet the Needs of People with Serious Illness

CAPC

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)’s 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard rates each state's capacity to deliver high-quality care to people living with a serious illness. The Scorecard provides an in-depth report on each state’s palliative care landscape, comparisons to other states across ...

20/11/2024

On The Good News Front:

Survival rate among those with lung cancer has improved over a quarter in the past 5 years.

The survival rate among those with lung cancer has improved by more than a quarter in the last five years, according to a new report. The findings from the American Lung Association’s latest …

05/11/2024

Studies show that social isolation or loneliness leads to increased risk for anxiety and depression, dementia, infectious disease, hospitalization, and all-cause death, even after adjusting for age & traditional risk factors.
MMedscape

With growing evidence that loneliness increases the risk for multiple diseases, there are questions about the mechanisms at play and what clinicians can do to help patients.

22/10/2024

"Cognitive training exercises can help older adults maintain or improve certain mental skills, such as memory and attention. [and]... can also lead to improvements in cognitive abilities not specifically trained for"

Dr. Chandramallika Basak and her colleagues in the Center for Vital Longevity shed light on the underlying brain mechanisms that might be responsible for cognitive training benefits beyond better memory and attention. Cognitive training exercises can help older adults maintain or improve certain men...

30/09/2024

Can palliative care consults in hospitals improve end-of-life care?

"...suggest that while ordering by default rather than by choice improves certain end-of-life care processes, the impact on hospital stay length is limited...."

"many people either do not get referred to palliative care or receive it late in their illness. "

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NIA-funded study finds ordering palliative care consults by default may improve end-of-life care for hospitalized older adults with serious illnesses but not decrease hospital stay length.

24/09/2024

This becomes a tool that’s just not replaceable because they can actually experience these things in the bed.

17/09/2024

Landers, CEO of NACH , outlines a vision for the National Alliance for Care at Home

Spreading the home-based care community’s message is about more than health care, it also speaks to the priorities and values of society at large,

10/09/2024

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Talking about death is never easy, but doing so early can help families prepare.

Talking about death is never easy, but doing so early can help families prepare. Experts recommend starting off by asking what matters most to their loved one such as what song they might want played at their funeral, or where they'd like to be buried.