Loneliness closely linked to 10-year dementia risk – Clinical Daily News

Loneliness has strong ties to long-term dementia risk in older adults, a 10-year study has found. The researchers tracked development of dementia over a 10-year period, measures of cognition and brain volume and other dementia-related changes based on brain scans. In addition, lonely participants younger than age 80 who did not have genetic risk for […]

After 20 years on the market, AbbVie’s dry-eye drug Restasis to be available as generic

population and nearly 19% percent of adults aged 75 years and older, according to data from a National Health and Wellness Survey. “Restasis has been approved for use in the U.S. Notably, Restasis’s developers attempted to keep its patents from federal review by transferring them to a Native American tribe in 2017 in the hopes […]

Inflation could stunt hot M&A market in 2022 – News

Some organizations’ plans to divest may reflect increasing financial pressures also captured in the McKnight’s 2022 Outlook Survey. “It’s been two years of pressure now. “Higher expenses have collided very unfavorably with the market stresses presented by the ongoing COVID situation,” she said. For others, Cochran added, finding a way out is no longer voluntary. […]

Shrinking lender pool could threaten a hot LTC market, Ziegler warns

The update honed in on what Ziegler called a concerning but “unnoticed” trend: the consolidation of banks and other lending institutions that many senior care organizations turn to for loans. “While there is no single data source that tracks all lenders or senior housing and care loans, the majority of loans of any size originate […]

Hermes Awards honor McKnight’s for creative communication

Mcknights.com was named a Gold Award winner for best home page, with the accolades shared by Art Director Mark Speakman, Staff Writer Danielle Brown, Senior Editor Kimberly Marselas and Executive Editor James M. A proud journalism graduate of the University of Maryland, Kim started her career as a daily newspaper reporter and has always been […]