Geriatric Medicine

Elderly adults with normal cognition at baseline who used statins had a slower rate of annual worsening in cognitive decline than nonusers….

Linagliptin is shown to be effective and safe in lowering blood glucose levels in the elderly population…. 

CVD may be playing a role in cognition problems before it is clinically apparent in patients…. 

The influenza vaccine in type 2 patients can….

Compared with younger adults, older adults get greater glycemic benefit from participating in self-management interventions in small groups….

People with type 2 diabetes who are diagnosed with cancer ignore their diabetes in favor of cancer treatment but uncontrolled high blood sugar weakens their immune systems and is more likely to kill them than cancer…. 

More than one-quarter of all adults over age 65 have diabetes but there is little research on how to treat the disease in older adults….

According to a new consensus statement from the American Diabetes Association and the American Geriatrics Society, treatment goals for older adults with type 2 diabetes should take into account life expectancy and the presence of comorbidities…. 

Data from a regional stroke registry suggest that stroke may be shifting from a disease of the elderly to a midlife health concern…. 

Several years ago, I had a 70-year-old patient who was starting on an insulin pump.