News Archive: Aging and Health
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Cognitive Interview techniques used to develop questionnaires for nursing home residents — June 18, 2008
The Cognitive Interview technique is a method for understanding how respondents answer survey questions. The technique can be used to understand how frail and institutionalized older adults respondents comprehend surveys.
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Age and gender differences for lung cancer patients in their last year of life — June 12, 2008
Expenditure differences are generally small across gender divides for elderly lung cancer patients who are in their last year of life. However, the same may not be true for younger groups of male and female patients.
Disabilities decline for the elderly in U.S.
Significant reductions in disabilities among the elderly occurred between the early 1980s and early 2000s, likely due to advances in medical care and to socioeconomic gains.
Advance care planning among the elderly — April. 14, 2008
End-of-life advance healthcare planning among the oldest patients may be improved by including input from outpatient primary care and geriatric providers.
Health professionals and the public unprepared to make use of genomic medicine for adults — March 18, 2007
Genetic testing can now help identify more than a thousand genes that increase the risk for a number of chronic and often fatal diseases. Advances in this field continue to expand rapidly. But a new study finds some healthcare workers are not ready to offer these services.
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Proxy and proxy-assisted responses for Medicare beneficiaries should be viewed with caution Mar 12, 08
Proxy and proxy-assisted responses for Medicare beneficiaries should be viewed with caution. Proxies can provide inaccurate ratings of the health of Medicare beneficiaries; spouses may be more accurate.
End-of-life treatment of symptoms should be improved Feb 18, 08
Chronic illnesses late in life may not be curable, but palliative care can be provided. This systematic review using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) classifications supports end-of-life interventions to improve care.Sexual function and prostate cancer in Japanese and American men — Jan. 22, 2008
This comparative study of prostate cancer patients found that Japanese men were more likely than their American counterparts to report problems with sexual functioning, but were also less likely to report being bothered by these issues.Little is known about the safety of osteoporosis prevention agents — Jan 21, 2008
Although several agents are available to treat osteoporosis, the relative efficacy and toxicity of these agents when used to prevent fractures has not been well described.
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