A new national poll suggests many older Americans experience big gaps in their primary care and miss opportunities for healthy aging. One solution for improving care for 65 and older patients is more widespread use of Medicare’s new “Annual Wellness Visit,” according to an April 24, 2012 press release by the John A. Harford Foundation, [...]
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Johns Hopkins researchers report in a new study that fall risk among middle-aged and elderly people increases significantly when those people have hearing loss. Researchers looked at data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2001 and 2004, in which more than 2,000 people ages 40 to 69 had taken a hearing [...] Many associate falls in the elderly with hip fractures. However, fractures of the humerus (or long arm bone that runs from the shoulder to the elbow) also are a big concern—especially to aging baby boomers, according to a new study. Researchers at University of California, Davis, studied data on 28 million emergency department (ED) [...] Postmenopausal women with knee osteoarthritis have a 21 percent greater risk for fractures and a 27 percent greater risk for falls than women of similar ages, but without osteoarthritis, Medscape News reported November 7, 2011. In this study, presented in Chicago at the American College of Rheumatology 2011 Annual Meeting, researchers analyzed existing data [...] |
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