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Peripheral Arterial Disease and Its Consequences: Considerations for Long-Term Care

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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in the LTC setting has major consequences in terms of mortality, morbidity, and increased healthcare costs. Complications include pain, chronic skin ulceration, gangrene, amputation, infection, and death. In recent years, medical-legal liability for providers caring for residents with this disease has increased. PAD is complex and involves inflammation and accumulation of lipids in the vascular intima, causing occlusion of blood flow.

Treatments for Depression in Older Persons with Dementia

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:50:43 -0500

author affiliations:

Dr. Gellis is Associate Professor and Director, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Mental Health & Aging, Philadelphia; Dr. McClive-Reed is Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Gerontology, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Albany; and Dr. Brown is Associate Professor of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Florida International University, Miami.

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CORRECTIONS:

What Should Geriatricians Be Doing?

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:05:41 -0500

author affiliations:

Dr. Nusbaum is Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois.

Why I’m an AGS Member

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:09:28 -0500

author affiliations:

Dr. Cefalu is Professor and Chief of the Section of Geriatric
Medicine at Louisiana State University’s Health Science Center
in New Orleans.

There are countless reasons why I joined the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), have renewed my membership since 1980, and will continue to do so in the future.

Washington Update

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:12:57 -0500

There were more questions than answers about the extent and pace of healthcare reform and potential changes to Medicare as President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration neared and this issue of Annals of Long-Term Care went to press in mid-January.

Try This: Urinary Incontinence Assessment in Older Adults Part I – Transient Urinary Incontinence

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First Report® American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals Meeting

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San Francisco, CA, October 24-29, 2008

Denosumab Associated With Significant Increases in Bone Mineral Density in Patients With Osteoporosis Previously Treated With Alendronate

Poster

Geriatrics Abstracts: Abstracts from Medical Literature for the Geriatrics Practitioner

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Dressings for Acute and Chronic Wounds

JAGS Abstracts: From the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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Excellent Early and Late Outcomes of Aortic Valve Replacement in People Aged 80 and Older

Farzan Filsoufi, MD, Parwis B. Rahmanian, MD, Javier G. Castillo, MD, Joanna Chikwe, MD, George Silvay, MD, PhD, and David H. Adams, MD

OBJECTIVES: To investigate early and late outcome of aortic valve replacement (AVR) in a large cohort of patients aged 80 and older.

DESIGN: Retrospective study of consecutive patients undergoing AVR using a computerized database based on the New York State Department of Health registry. Data collection was performed prospectively.