11.17.2025
Clinical Alerts
11.17.2025
Advance Care Planning Motivators Among Adults With Serious Illness
Advance care planning (ACP), or the process by which people and their surrogate decision-makers prepare for communication and medical decision-making, is associated with higher satisfaction...
11.17.2025
Nonmedical Stimulant Use and Stimulant Use Disorders in Palliative Care
Stimulants are amphetamines or amphetamine-like drugs. These include illegal substances such as cocaine and illegally manufactured and distributed methamphetamine, as well as the prescription medications...
10.21.2025
More Evidence Lowering Amyloid Is Clinically Beneficial in Early Alzheimer’s
Reduced amyloid burden after treatment with the antiamyloid donanemab (Kisunla) correlated strongly with slower cognitive and functional decline in adults with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease...
10.21.2025
Food Insecurity and Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Impairment with No Dementia in US Older Adults
The prevalence of Alzheimer disease and related dementias among US older adults is expected to increase by 2060. Food insecurity may lead to impaired cognitive...
10.21.2025
Taking Care of Patients with a Live Hospice Discharge
A live hospice discharge can be defined as when a patient is disenrolled in hospice care prior to death. This can occur for many reasons,...
09.23.2025
Five-Year Change in Sleep Duration and Incident Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Among Lower-Income Older Adults
In 2024, healthcare costs for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) in the United States were projected to reach $360 billion. Based on...
09.23.2025
Alternative Treatments to Selected Medications in the 2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria serve to identify medications whose potential for harm outweighs their intended benefit in older adults. This highlights the...
09.23.2025
Animal Assisted Therapy in Palliative Care
Animal-assisted therapy (AAI) is a complementary treatment modality with roots back to ancient Greece. It involves a patient, a highly trained animal, either a therapist,...