Geriatrics
- Should I prescribe statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in older adults?
This decision should reflect the patient’s biological age and functional status rather than chronological age alone.
- Hyperactive delirium in hospitalized older adults: Balancing medication choices and QTc prolongation risk
Medications for managing delirium symptoms, particularly antipsychotics, are associated with prolongation of the QT interval, which is a risk factor for the development of fatal arrhythmias.
- Fighting ageism: Preserving patient agency in critical care
To avoid falling into ageism bias, we must maintain a framework grounded in respect for the patient, one that deliberately centers on the patient’s voice.
- Failure to thrive in hospitalized older adults: More than a ‘social admission’
Failure to thrive documented as an admitting diagnosis presents an opportunity to identify, articulate, and begin to ameliorate the true underlying causes of the patient’s health deficits.
- Managing obesity in older adults
The goals of treating obesity in older adults are to ease its complications and improve functional status and quality of life, with or without weight loss.
Most elderly patients with subclinical hypothyroidism do not need to be treatedAge-adjusted thyrotropin reference ranges, consideration of individual circumstances, and a wait-and-see approach for mild subclinical hypothyroidism might be more suitable than a universal treatment strategy.
- Subclinical hypothyroidism: What’s in a name?
Clinicians should remain thoughtful about the variability in aging biology and not be blinded by a name.
