Geriatric update 2022: Preventing Alzheimer disease and more

Cleve Clin J Med. 2022 Nov 1;89(11):617-624. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.89a.21094.

Abstract

Articles published in 2020 and 2021 contain important research related to preventing Alzheimer dementia; the relationships between frailty, social isolation, and mortality; COVID-19 risks in patients with dementia; hospital-at-home programs; deprescribing antihypertensive drugs; bisphosphonate-related atypical femoral fractures; and cannabis use in older adults.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Alzheimer Disease*
  • COVID-19*
  • Diphosphonates / adverse effects
  • Frailty*
  • Humans

Substances

  • Diphosphonates