12.11.2024
Clinical Alerts
12.11.2024
All About Massage Therapy and How it Fits into Palliative Care
Massage therapists, like any other clinician, need mentorship and the specialized knowledge that comes from that relationship. Massage therapy education prepares generalists who can do...
12.11.2024
Veterans’ Well-Being Tools Aim to Improve Quality of Life
Could assessing the well-being of older patients create better treatment plans? Researchers with the US Department of Veterans Affairs posit that doing so just might...
11.19.2024
Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster
When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be...
11.15.2024
Novel Intervention Slows Cognitive Decline in At-Risk Adults
New research suggests that combining cognitive remediation (CR) with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was associated with slower cognitive decline for up to 6 years...
11.15.2024
Technology That CARES: Enhancing Dementia Care Through Everyday Technologies
“Everyday technologies” have long been suggested as digital tools to improve life for and enhance care of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD)....
10.16.2024
Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar
What is the effective dose of palliative care? This GeriPal podcast discusses finding an evidence-based answer to this dosing question with three leaders in palliative...
10.16.2024
Smartphone Data Flag Early Dementia Risk in Older Adults
Older adults at risk for dementia can be identified using mobile data obtained during a wayfinding task, a novel real-world study suggested. During a smartphone-assisted...
10.16.2024
Association of Mind Diet with Cognitive Decline Among Black and White Older Adults
The role of modifiable lifestyle risk factors, such as diet, in slowing cognitive decline and reducing Alzheimer’s disease dementia risk among increasingly diverse aging populations...