Dr. Cathy A. Alessi M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
16111 Plummer St Grecc (11e); Va Medi North Hills CA, 91343About
Dr. Cathy Alessi practices Geriatric Medicine in North Hills, CA. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Alessi works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
University of Illinois College of Medicine 1984
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A prospective study of acute illness in the nursing home.
- A randomized trial of a combined physical activity and environmental intervention in nursing home residents: do sleep and agitation improve?
- Approach to sleep disorders in the nursing home setting. REVIEW ARTICLE.
- The effects of an exercise and incontinence intervention on skin health outcomes in nursing home residents.
- The effects of staffing on in-bed times of nursing home residents.
- The Minimum Data Set bedfast quality indicator: differences among nursing homes.
- Visual impairment and Alzheimer's disease.
- Nighttime oxygen desaturation and symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing in long-stay nursing home residents.
- Randomized, controlled trial of a nonpharmacological intervention to improve abnormal sleep/wake patterns in nursing home residents.
- Depression in older patients admitted for postacute nursing home rehabilitation.
- Practice parameters for the indications for polysomnography and related procedures: an update for 2005.
- Daytime sleeping, sleep disturbance, and circadian rhythms in the nursing home.
- Practice parameters for the treatment of snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea with oral appliances: an update for 2005.
- Low serum free thyroxine index in ambulating elderly is due to a resetting of the threshold of thyrotropin feedback suppression.
- Limited validity of minimum data set items on sleep and hypnotic use in predicting falls and hip fracture in nursing home residents.
Treatments
- Dementia
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