Older adults in long-term care homes who have Parkinson’s disease (PD) are frequently prescribed antipsychotic medications without clear justification, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo and the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging.
The study published in the Canadian Journal on Aging, outlines 17 new recommendations that optimize care practices for heart failure in LTC, with the goal of improving resident quality of life and preventing emergency room visits.
Waterloo researcher is investigating the association between high school grades and the complexity of young adults’ essays with the risk of Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been awarded a grant of $8.8 million from the U.S. National Cancer Institute to evaluate the public-health impact of government policies to regulate tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and other vaporized nicotine products.
Three times more Canadian teenagers are gambling online than previously thought, according research from the University of Waterloo and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
Two University of Waterloo researchers specializing in population health are winners of the prestigiousTrailblazer Award, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) announced today.
Canadian magazines are sending women mixed messages about skin cancer and tanning, according to new University of Waterloo research.
Ten years after daily physical activity was mandated in elementary schools, many Ontario teachers report students aren’t getting their 20 minutes of exercise each school day, says a University of Waterloo public health researcher.
Very sick children in need of mental health treatment are ending up in adult psychiatric units because there’s nowhere for them to go when they are in crisis, says a Waterloo researcher.
Providers of mental-health services still rely on intervention techniques such as physical restraint and confinement to control some psychiatric hospital patients, a practice which can cause harm to both patients and care facilities, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo