A University of Lancashire placement invites first-year medical students to learn about care home residents through conversation, but lasting effects remain untested.
What Medical Students Learn From Talking To Care Home Residents
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Acute Back Pain: Skip The Prescription Painkillers In First Line, Study Suggests
A study of Medicaid records found higher rates of opioid use disorder or overdose after first-line opioids or gabapentinoids for acute back pain.
Physical Activity Linked To Fewer Perimenopause Symptoms, Global Study Finds
A survey of more than 1,800 Flo app users across 87 countries found higher activity frequency was associated with lower perimenopause symptom scores.
Why You Feel Stiffer After 60, And Why It’s Not Just Age
A Pilates instructor says stiffness can be linked to long periods of sitting and limited movement, though age and health conditions can also play a role.
A Sports Dietitian Shares Her ALDI Grocery List For Making Healthy Meals
Registered sports dietitian Roxana Ehsani recommends five ALDI staples for building convenient meals with protein, fiber and other nutrients.
ADHD Tied To Higher Mortality Risk
A review of 19 studies found higher mortality associated with ADHD. A lower risk linked to medication came from only three studies.
Are We Planning For A Longer Life Or Just A Longer Retirement?
A Sixty and Me report argues retirement plans should leave room for changing goals, health, relationships and housing as people age.
Adult ADHD; Encouraging Advance Care Planning; Hospital Closures In The U.S.
A Texas Tech health podcast reviews adult ADHD, U.S. hospital closures and ways to encourage advance care planning for older adults with serious illness.
Your Age May Not Tell The Whole Story About Your Health, But Your Blood Could
A study of 18,476 people linked blood-based metabolomic aging measures with chronic disease and mortality risk, but did not establish cause and effect.
Be Joyful, Though You Have Considered All The Facts
A Sixty and Me essay uses Wendell Berry’s call to joy to discuss gratitude, news habits, health, curiosity and relationships during stressful times.
