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CONFERENCE ISSUE<br />
March/April 2017<br />
Vol. 10 No. 2<br />
NEWS AND INSIGHT FOR PROFESSIONALS IN ELDER CARE<br />
Detecting<br />
Delirium<br />
Failure to recognize delirium can lead to functional<br />
decline, longer hospital stays, and higher mortality rates.<br />
Insomnia in<br />
Older Adults<br />
Alzheimer’s Disease<br />
and Its Management<br />
Innovative Methods<br />
to Preserve Autonomy<br />
in Patients With<br />
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As your patients age, their immune systems weaken, decreasing their bodies' ability to<br />
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of being protected against influenza.1,2 In clini<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=1"> CONFERENCE ISSUE March/April 2017 Vol. 10</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=2"> As your patients age, their immune systems weaken</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=3"> FLUAD (Influenza Vaccine, Adjuvanted) Suspension f</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=4"> Systemic Myalgia Any 14.7 9.7 Moderat</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=5"> Because these events are reported voluntari</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=6"> FROM THE EDITOR TOWARD DEFEATING DELIRIUM By Bar</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=7"> It’s our turn to pick up where you’ve left off. Y</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=8"> CONTENTS MARCH/APRIL 2017 </a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=9"> ANTIANXIETY MEDICATIONS By Mark D. Coggins, Pharm</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=10"> MEDICATION MONITOR Antidepressants for First-L</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=11"> Safe Prescribing Practices In an effort to</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=12"> Delirium, a life-threatening preventable complica</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=13"> E ach year more</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=14"> Predisposing and Precipitating Factors for Deliri</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=15"> Time constraints on the health care provide</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=16"> Innovative Methods to Preserve Autonomy </a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=17"> Cognitive decline resulting from age-</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=18"> Promoting Advance Directives With respect t</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=19"> Strategies to Preserve Autonomy in Advanced Demen</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=20"> Part One in a Two-Part Series Differentiating Dem</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=21"> O ne of society’s most pressing iss</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=22"> </a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=23"> Dual neurotransmitter activity in the Alzhe</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=24"> INSOMNIA in OLDER ADULTS Providers must recognize</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=25"> In practice, however, it is important </a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=26"> Common co-occurring psychological issues inc</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=27"> • Lying in bed while unable to sleep is counterp</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=28"> CLINICAL NEWS IDENTIFYING LEWY BODY </a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=29"> Unless a patient’s physicians are well inf</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=30"> RESEARCH REVIEW GCH1 GENE MUTATION LI</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=31"> examination explored how this genetic variant alt</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=32"> NATIONWIDE • PA • CA What is your legacy? Geriat</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=33"> Reading Hospital, a nationally recognized hospita</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=34"> VINTAGE VOICES SELF-CARE: AN ETHICAL IMPE</a>
<a title="March/April 2017 - Today's Geriatric Medicine page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f520bc2f?page=35"> Melissa Bloomer, M.A., CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pa</a>
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