{"title":"The Unique Role of Lung Cancer Nurse Navigators in Elderly Lung Cancer Patients","authors":"C. Yoder, Arthur W Holtzclaw, S. Sarkar","doi":"10.1007/s13670-020-00317-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-020-00317-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"9 1","pages":"40-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13670-020-00317-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46666729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pleural Infection—a Growing Problem in the Elderly","authors":"Maged Hassan, C. Daneshvar, J. Corcoran","doi":"10.1007/s13670-020-00320-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-020-00320-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"9 1","pages":"47-53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13670-020-00320-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45756416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seizures and Epilepsy in the Elderly: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations","authors":"Christopher J. Elder, Anil Mendiratta","doi":"10.1007/s13670-020-00310-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-020-00310-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"9 1","pages":"10-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13670-020-00310-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48716671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle C. Johansen, N. Langton-Frost, R. Gottesman
{"title":"The Role of Cardiovascular Disease in Cognitive Impairment","authors":"Michelle C. Johansen, N. Langton-Frost, R. Gottesman","doi":"10.1007/s13670-020-00309-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-020-00309-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13670-020-00309-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43899052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Healthcare Robotics in Providing Support to Older Adults: a Socio-ecological Perspective.","authors":"George Mois, Jenay M Beer","doi":"10.1007/s13670-020-00314-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13670-020-00314-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>In this review, we provide an overview of how healthcare robotics can facilitate healthy aging, with an emphasis on physical, cognitive, and social supports. We next provide a synthesis of future challenges and considerations in the development and application of healthcare robots. We organize these considerations using a socio-ecological perspective and discuss considerations at the individual, care partner, community healthcare, and healthcare policy levels.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Older adults are the fastest growing segment of the US population. Age-related changes and challenges can present difficulties, for older adults want to age healthily and maintain independence. Technology, specifically healthcare robots, has potential to provide health supports to older adults. These supports span widely across the physical, cognitive, and social aspects of healthy aging.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Our review suggests that while healthcare robotics has potential to revolutionize the way in which older adults manage their health, there are many challenges such as clinical effectiveness, technology acceptance, health informatics, and healthcare policy and ethics. Addressing these challenges at all levels of the healthcare system will help ensure that healthcare robotics promote healthy aging and are applied safely, effectively, and reliably.</p>","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"9 2","pages":"82-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7223616/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37958546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insomnia in Older Adults.","authors":"Vivian Nguyen, Tessy George, Glenna S Brewster","doi":"10.1007/s13670-019-00300-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-019-00300-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>To evaluate and summarize recent research articles pertaining to insomnia in older adults that can guide healthcare providers on factors to consider when assessing and managing insomnia.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Up to 75% of older adults experience symptoms of insomnia. Insomnia is associated with socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic classification, family relationships, medical and mental health disorders, cognitive function, and dementia. Although one-fifth of older adults are still prescribed sleep medications, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia is the first line treatment for insomnia, resulting in short-term and long-term benefits.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>To manage insomnia safely and effectively, healthcare providers need to consistently assess for insomnia during baseline and annual assessments, evaluate medical and social factors associated with insomnia, minimize the use of sleep medications, and provide referrals to and/or collaborate with providers who perform cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. Insomnia screening is important as it facilitates early intervention with behavioral management, reduces the potential for pharmacological management, which increases fall risk in older adults, and enables further assessment and early identification of outcomes such as cognitive impairment.</p>","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"8 4","pages":"271-290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13670-019-00300-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38705591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthetic review of financial capacity in cognitive disorders: Foundations, interventions, and innovations.","authors":"Milap A Nowrangi, Gorkem Sevinc, Vidyulata Kamath","doi":"10.1007/s13670-019-00304-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-019-00304-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Financial capacity (FC) is a complex, multi-dimensional construct that changes over the lifespan and commonly becomes impaired as individuals age and develop dementia. Impaired FC results in several important negative outcomes including loss of independence and increased victimization and abuse. The goal of this review is to synthesize current knowledge of the assessment and intervention of impaired financial capacity in order to propose its further development in the context of technological advancements.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Current methods of assessing FC are based on conceptual foundations that include judgment, procedural, and other pragmatic skills. The neurocognitive correlates of FC include basic arithmetic skills, attention, and visual memory. These cognitive domains are presently assessed through clinical and neuropsychological evaluation as well as instruments specifically designed to assess financial capacity. Despite having a firm conceptual and neurocognitive foundation, current assessment methods of FC are limited by their ability to be flexible, individualizable, or scalable.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>Computer and software technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the internet of things are exciting tools to achieve the ultimate goal of developing measures that allow patients to maintain or support maximal independence in financial functioning. These tools will allow for contemporaneous and ecologically valid assessment and would be useful to legal professionals and clinicians in determinations of financial competency and capacity. Moreover, interventions that provide safety and monitoring while allowing patients maximal autonomy of preserved financial abilities are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"8 4","pages":"257-264"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13670-019-00304-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38733521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urinary Incontinence in Elderly Men: Update on Evaluation and Treatment","authors":"R. Syan, C. Comiter","doi":"10.1007/s13670-019-00308-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-019-00308-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38089,"journal":{"name":"Current Geriatrics Reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"322 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13670-019-00308-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41667730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}