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Showing posts with label Geriatrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geriatrics. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2018

A Debate Over ‘Rational Suicide’

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Paula Span The New York Times Originally posted August 31, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Is suicide by older adults ever a rational choice?...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Living with the animals: animal or robotic companions for the elderly in smart homes?

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Dirk Preuß and Friederike Legal J Med Ethics doi:10.1136/medethics-2016-103603 Abstract Although the use of pet robots in senior livin...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Blue Cross expands benefits for end-of-life care

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By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey The Boston Globe First posted on December 28, 2015 Here is an excerpt: And while the primary goal is not c...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Inappropriateness of Medication Prescriptions to Elderly Patients in the Primary Care Setting

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Dedan Opondo, Saied Eslami, Stefan Visscher, Sophia E. de Rooij, Robert Verheij, Joke C. Korevaar, Ameen Abu-Hanna Published: August 22, 20...
Friday, October 11, 2013

When There’s No Family

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By PAULA SPAN The New York Times Originally published September 23, 2013 I rarely write about advance directives and end-of-life discuss...
Friday, September 13, 2013

U.S. Nursing Homes Reducing Use of Antipsychotic Drugs

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By Alan Mozes MedicineNet.com Originally published August 27, 2013 A year-old nationwide effort to prevent the unnecessary use of antips...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Inclusion of Ethical Issues in Dementia Guidelines: A Thematic Text Analysis

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By H. Knuppel, M. Mertz, M. Schmidhuber, G. Neitzke, and D. Strech PLOS Medicine - Open Access Ethical issues were inconsistently address...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

A Glut of Antidepressants

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By RONI CARYN RABIN The New York Times Originally published August 12, 2013 Over the past two decades, the use of antidepressants has sk...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Introducing deprescribing into culture of medication

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By Catherine Cross Canadian Medical Association Originally published August 12, 2013 An Ontario pharmacist has received a government gra...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Elderly Patients Routinely Prescribed Risky Drugs

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By Anahad O'Connor The New York Times - Well Column Originally published April 15, 2013 Doctors in the United States routinely presc...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Do We Need 'Thanaticians' for the Terminally Ill?

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By Ronald W. Pies Medscape - Ethics in Psychiatry Originally published September 26, 2012 My 89-year-old mother had been losing ground f...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide

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By Choe Sang-Hun The New York Times Originally published February 16, 2013 Here is an excerpt: The woman’s death is part of one of Sou...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Aging Boomers' Mental Health Woes Will Swamp Health System

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By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter Originally published July 10, 2012 The United States faces an unprecedented number of aging baby bo...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Antipsychotics overprescribed in nursing homes

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By M. Price The Monitor on Psychology September 2011, Volume 42, No. 8 Print Version: Page 11 Physicians are widely prescribing antipsycho...