2014 Article Archive

November/December 2014

November/December 2014

• Building From Within: 5 Strategies for Growing a Geriatrics Practice
  Developing a thriving geriatrics practice that is both professionally and financially rewarding depends on calculated planning and specialized strategies.
• Pain Management Strategies
  Providers must take steps to identify the type and source of patients' pain and provide the most appropriate form of treatment.
• Interventions Slow Brain Atrophy
  Specialized interventions can maximize cognitively impaired patients' ability to control cognitive and functional demands to the greatest possible extent.
• Oral Health Care Affects Quality of Life
  The association between oral infection and systemic disease warrants particular vigilance in monitoring older adults' oral health.

Departments

From the Editor
Stemming the Tide

Medication Monitor
Insomnia Management

Clinical News
Gait Speed Reflects Cognitive Function

Research Review
Home INR Monitoring Improves Warfarin Therapy

Datebook

Vintage Voices
Cognitive Decline Screening and Resources

September/October 2014

September/October 2014

• Stroke Rehabilitation: Strengthening Synapses to Achieve Optimal Outcomes
  Individualized treatment, focusing on reorganization in the recovering brain; a multidisciplinary rehabilitation approach; goal setting; and use of community therapy resources, is key to successful stroke rehabilitation.

• End-of-Life Palliative Care
  Palliative care improves quality of life for older patients, supports family members, and reduces unnecessary medical expenditures.

• Fit and Strong! Improves Arthritis Symptoms
  The specialized program, combining structured physical activity with health education to build self-efficacy and effect behavior change, helps to reduce lower extremity joint pain.

• Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: Having the Conversation
  Physicians need to effectively communicate to patients and their families the realities of nutrition and hydration options in end-of-life care. Providers must explain the potential risks and limited benefits of artificial nutrition.

Departments

From the Editor
Advocating Stroke Awareness

Medication Monitor
Preventing Medication Errors

News Brief

Alzheimer’s Update
Lighting Affects Dementia Patients’ Sleep

Fall Risk Product & Service Showcase

Datebook

Vintage Voices
Advance Preparation for Driving Retirement

July/August 2014

July/August 2014

• Demystifying Menopause: What Providers Should Know
  Fewer than one in five recently polled obstetrics and gynecology residents received formal training in menopause medicine. Other physicians feel similarly ill equipped to adequately treat menopause symptoms. Experts discuss strategies that work.

• Therapeutic Options in Alzheimer’s Disease
  Physicians must discuss with patients and caregivers the available options using medications to treat Alzheimer’s disease, including their limited clinical benefit, adverse side effects, and associated costs.

• Pharmacogenomic Treatment Support
  Pharmacogenomics identifies information about a patient’s own genetic makeup, or genome, and then selects the drugs and drug dosages most likely to work for that individual. The process allows physicians to choose medications specifically suited for a particular patient.

• Diabetes Self-Management Improves Outcomes
  Diabetes self-management programs help patients learn how to manage their disease through appropriate monitoring, medication adherence, diet modifications, and beneficial activity.

Departments

From the Editor
‘Taming of the Shrew’ With Enlightened Guidance

News Brief

Innovations in Geriatrics
Stress Incontinence in Women

Medication Monitor
Steroid-Related Risks

Q & A
A Consultation With Geriatrician Rosemary Laird, MD

Research Review
Adverse Medical Events Prevalent With Medicare

Clinical News
Clinical Aromatherapy

Datebook

Vintage Voices
New Oral Anticoagulants

May/June 2014

May/June 2014

• Hearing Loss — Undiagnosed and Undertreated
  Despite dramatic strides in correcting older adults’ hearing loss, the pervasive impairment goes largely undiagnosed and untreated.

• Holistic and Creative Arts Therapies in Alzheimer’s Care
  Creative arts therapies such as music, art, or drama and holistic modalities, including yoga, visualization, breathing, aromatherapy, and Reiki/massage, can improve Alzheimer’s patients’ quality of life.
• Familial Hypercholesterolemia: A Silent and Symptomless Killer
  Because familial hypercholesterolemia predisposes affected individuals to heart attack and stroke, identifying and treating this silent killer are critical.

Departments

From the Editor
When Silence Isn’t Golden

News Brief

Medication Monitor
Medication-Related Ototoxicity

Innovations in Geriatrics
Spectrum Model of Aging

Research Review
Assessing Aspirin Efficacy for Heart Patients

Alzheimer’s Update

Clinical News
Resilience Strategies for Geriatric Care Teams

Long Term Care
Therapeutic Socialization Offers Support

Nutrition
Omega-3 Supplementation

Vintage Voices
A New Model for Alzheimer’s Care

March/April 2014

March/April 2014

• Spotlight on Geriatricians
  Today’s Geriatric Medicine highlights geriatricians nominated by their peers for their practice excellence.

• Wound Care Management
  Interdisciplinary wound care management practices attract partnerships with referral sources and reduce the potential for wound-related litigation.

• The Role of Vitamin D in Falls: Q & A on the AGS Consensus Report
  Experts provide guidance on vitamin D supplementation.

• Critical End-of-Life Communication
  Providers must help direct end-of-life treatment decisions and facilitate patients’ and/or families’ choices via compassionate communication.

Departments

From the Editor
It’s All About the Patients

News Briefs

Clinical News
Applying New Obesity Guidelines

Medication Monitor
Undertreating Pain

Long Term Care
Sexuality and Dementia

Research Review
Statin Nation

Spring Product & Service Showcase

Datebook

Vintage Voices
Reducing Pneumoccocal Disease Burden

January/February 2014

January/February 2014

• The Virtual Medical Home: Practical Applications of Patient-Centered Medical Home Principles
  Professional teams enhance care and outcomes by improving access, continuity, patient self-management, disease management, and coordination, resulting in care delivery that optimizes the contributions of every team member and enhances efficiency. 
• Interventions Bolster Fall Prevention
  Individually tailored balance and strength exercise programs can effectively reduce older adults’ rates and risks of falling.
• The Frailty Syndrome
  Physicians must understand the importance of identifying frail elders and the specialized treatment they require.
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD: A Second Wind
  Pulmonary rehabilitation can dramatically improve COPD management and substantially improve patients’ quality of life.

Departments

From the Editor
Championing Exceptional Patient Care

Medication Monitor
Recognizing Proton Pump Inhibitor Risk

Alzheimer’s Update
Alzheimer’s Disease and the Blood-Brain Barrier

Innovations in Geriatrics
New Transcarotid Stenting Procedure

Nutrition
Fish Oils and Cognitive Function

News Brief
Identifying Antibodies to Prevent Cell Death

Datebook

Vintage Voices
Clinicians or Bureaucrats to Authorize Health Care?