August 22, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Bosses already live in fear that a verbal misstep will be recorded and go viral. Now they can look forward to a new nightmare in which artificial intelligence analyzes their rhetorical stumbles and suggests they’re no … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Washington Post) – For many, middle age is associated with midlife crises and internal tumult. According to new research, it is also when the human body undergoes two dramatic bouts of rapid physical transformation on a molecular level. In a … Read More
August 15, 2024
(The Verge) – The smart home-powered service uses Samsung’s SmartThings platform and Galaxy smartphones to help remote caregivers keep tabs on those they’re caring for. Samsung is launching a new service to help caregivers remotely monitor and assist loved ones … Read More
August 13, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Institutions say it is safe and opens hospital beds, but policymakers fear it’s too pricey and lacks strict standards Around the country, more than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and … Read More
August 9, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Violent altercations between residents in long-term care facilities are alarmingly common. Across the country, residents in nursing homes or assisted living centers have been killed by other residents who weaponized a bedrail, shoved pillow stuffing into … Read More
August 5, 2024
(New York Times) – Adult children are less likely to assist an aging stepparent, studies show. A growing “step gap” in senior care worries experts. Calculating the growth in stepfamilies isn’t simple, but a demographic analysis published last year estimated … Read More
July 30, 2024
(NPR) – Errors in diagnosis are relatively common among older people. The reasons are many: older adults may have multiple conditions, take many medications, and illnesses can look very different in older people than they do in younger ones. Older … Read More
July 29, 2024
(New York Times) — It was much more accurate than primary care doctors using cognitive tests and CT scans. The findings could speed the quest for an affordable and accessible way to diagnose patients with memory problems. (Read More)
July 18, 2024
(BBC) – A drug has increased the lifespans of laboratory animals by nearly 25%, in a discovery scientists hope can slow human ageing too. The treated mice were known as “supermodel grannies” in the lab because of their youthful appearance. … Read More
July 15, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Even after multiple incidents of extreme weather — including a 2021 Texas winter storm that caused widespread blackouts and prompted a U.S. Senate investigation — not much has changed for those living in long-term care facilities … Read More
July 12, 2024
(The Hastings Center) – The Biden Administration is struggling with a dilemma that has a clinical ethics component. Where does the President’s right to privacy about his health end and the public’s right to know begin? This question has recurred … Read More
July 12, 2024
(New York Times) – The Biden administration set stringent new federal staffing rules. But for years, nursing homes have failed to meet the toughest standards set by states. California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island have sought to improve … Read More
July 12, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Human lifespan has a limit and we might have reached it. S. Jay Olshansky, who studies the upper bounds of human longevity at the University of Illinois Chicago, believes people shouldn’t expect to live to 100. … Read More
July 12, 2024
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 50, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Consent to Testing for Brain Death” by Barry Lyons and Mary Donnelly “Questioning our Presumptions about the Presumption of Capacity” by Isabel Marie Astrachan, Alexander … Read More
July 10, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 2-3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Residents’ Experiences of Paternalism in Nursing Homes” by Anne Helene Mortensen, et al. “Ethical Issues in long-term Care Settings: Care Workers’ Lived Experiences” by Anna-Liisa … Read More
July 8, 2024
(Axios) – What they found: Sexually transmitted disease diagnoses overall rose roughly 5% among commercially insured patients from 2020 to 2023, according to an analysis of FAIR Health’s repository of 47 billion commercial health care claim records. Patients aged 65 … Read More
July 8, 2024
(New York Times) – New York officials believe a robotic companion called ElliQ, which can discuss complicated subjects, is helping older residents feel less alone. Critics are concerned about data collection. ElliQ, a voice-activated robotic companion powered by artificial intelligence, … Read More
July 4, 2024
(NPR) – In hopes of easing that burden, Medicare, the federal government’s health insurance program for people 65 and over, is launching an eight-year pilot project this summer with a groundbreaking plan. The government will pay to directly support the … Read More
July 2, 2024
(Axios) – The Biden administration is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to train primary care clinicians to better serve older adults, officials announced Monday. Why it matters: America faces a shortage of geriatricians, who specialize in health care for … Read More
July 2, 2024
(Axios) – The rise in hoarding disorder as America ages requires a national response, a new Senate report shared first with Axios says. Why it matters: The prevalence and severity of hoarding disorder increases with age — and the U.S. … Read More
June 17, 2024
(ABC News) – On June 3, NYSOFA announced that it will give away 4,725 additional robotic pets to seniors in ongoing efforts to combat senior loneliness. Greg Olsen, the acting director of NYSOFA, said that loneliness has grave health consequences for … Read More
June 17, 2024
(Washington Post via Yahoo!) – The call-center incidents were among dozens flagged by doctors, nurses and assistants at One Medical Seniors between Feb. 19 and March 18 in the documents, a year after Amazon acquired the primary-care service. One Medical … Read More
June 10, 2024
(New York Times) – In long-term care facilities, residents sometimes yell at or threaten one other, lob insults, invade fellow residents’ personal or living space, rummage through others’ possessions and take them. They can swat or kick or push. Or … Read More
May 20, 2024
(New York Times) – As more places legalize marijuana, policymakers and health officials have worried about the health risks that the drug may pose to adolescents. But a new study suggests that an additional demographic is at risk: seniors. The … Read More
May 20, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Golden Pup and Paro are available now. But researchers are working on much more sophisticated robots for people with cognitive disorders—devices that leverage AI to converse and play games. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington are tweaking … Read More
