Tag Archives for heart failure
Heart Failure Patients Choosing Alternative Venues for End-of-Life Care
An ever increasing number of patients with heart failure are choosing hospice care for the last few months of their lives. End of life costs have progressively gone up for this population, however the trend towards hospice and other palliative…
Tags: acute care hospital, Americans, Canadians, heart failure, hospice, Medicare, palliative, patients
Hypertension Bad for the Brain?
~ by Cher Giovani The study wasn’t about dementia: it was about blood pressure. A British group researching hypertension in the elderly followed a group of participants aged 80 and over to record the effects of drug therapy treatment for…
Tags: Alzheimers/Dementia, blood pressure, calcium channel, dementia, elderly, heart disease, heart failure, hypertension, medicine, pharmacy, seniors, stroke, vascular dementia
