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Sodium Reduction May Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives Hospital at Home Comprehensive Preoperative Assessment Antihistamine Risks Older Brain Is Willing, but Too Full Hospitals Try House Calls to Cut Costs, Admissions Hostilities in the Nursing Home The Other Incontinence Tech & Tools Hospital at Home: Patient Care Model of the Future? Hospital at Home, a pioneering healthcare model, allows for acute hospital-level care to be provided to elders in the comfort of their homes. Read more » Comprehensive Preoperative Assessment Comprehensive preoperative assessment and correction of inadequacies or deficiencies to the greatest extent possible is necessary to achieve optimal surgical outcomes in elderly patients. Read more » Antihistamine Risks Side effects associated with antihistamines can greatly increase the risk of falls and symptoms resembling cognitive impairment or dementia. Read more »   The health concerns related to sodium intake certainly are not new. The connection linking high sodium intake to hypertension and cardiovascular disease is too strong to ignore. Current dietary guidelines recommend that Americans over the age of 51 limit their sodium intake to 1,500 mg/day. Nearly all American adults consume more sodium than they need, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and most consume more than twice their recommended daily limit. Increases in sodium intake result in increasing blood pressure. Hypertension increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with one in every six US healthcare dollars spent on cardiovascular disease, according to the CDC. Reducing the average population sodium intake to 1,500 mg/day holds the potential to save billions of dollars in healthcare spending and significantly reduce hypertension rates. It’s time for healthcare practitioners to take a proactive stance on patients’ sodium intake. In addition to reading our e-newsletter, be sure to visit Aging Well’s website at www.AgingWellmag.com, where you’ll find news and information that’s relevant and reliable. We welcome your feedback at AWeditor@gvpub.com. Follow Aging Well on Facebook, too. — Barbara Worthington, editor Sodium Reduction May Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives Less sodium in Americans’ diets could save as many as 500,000 lives over 10 years, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. Using computer simulations and models, researchers projected the effects of small, steady annual reductions of sodium consumption in the US diet (about 5% of 1 tsp of salt per person per day), reducing sodium consumption by 40% to about 2,200 mg/day over 10 years. Among the key study findings are the following: Full Story »

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