HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) — Elderly hospital patients
with delirium are at increased risk for dementia, institutionalization and
death, a new study has found.

HealthDay - MONDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) — Gender-specific regulation of
cholesterol levels may help prevent depression in the elderly, suggests a
new study.

AP - Drugmakers Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc. said on Saturday that government regulators have given them permission to make a larger dose of its Alzheimer’s disease drug Aricept for patients who have already been taking the smaller dose.

Reuters - Eisai Co and Pfizer Inc said they won U.S. regulatory approval for a higher dose once-daily version of Aricept, a drug that treats Alzheimer disease.

LiveScience.com - As if depression wasn’t bad enough on its own, new research
suggests older adults with depressive symptoms are at increased risk of
developing Alzheimer’s disease.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) — A birthday card on the
market for older adults, meant to be humorous, shows a vulture on a tree
branch, with the admonition to “Keep moving.”

Reuters - The Medicare drug benefit may be helping more older Americans with heart failure get the medications recommended for controlling the disease, a new study finds.

AP - Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named in nearly 4,000 false Medicare claims.

Reuters - U.S. authorities charged 94 doctors, nurses and clinic owners with scheming to defraud the taxpayer-funded Medicare program out of $251 million, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.

Reuters - Squirting insulin up the noses of patients with early forms of Alzheimer’s disease showed signs of improving their memory, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.