Appearances can be deceiving: aging, homelessness, and acute care
Before reading any further, stop to think about the last older homeless adult you saw. If you are a…
Before reading any further, stop to think about the last older homeless adult you saw. If you are a…
by: Robert Killeen MD Hospice is beset by many societal obstacles in its care of the transgendered patient. I saw…
“Doctors are terrible at prognostication.” This is a line that I often hear from other doctors in clinical practice. While…
by: Ken Covinsky (@geri_doc) Over half of persons with type 2 Diabetes are over the age of 65. You would…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) An 85-year-old woman with moderate Alzheimer’s disease who enjoys walking in her nursing home’s garden with…
By: Bree Johnston One issue that I think we have not examined sufficiently is the impact that repeated discussions about…
by: Josh Lakin, MD Palliative Care Fellow, UCSF This week has been full of active discussion around “the code”. As…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD Eric kicked off the week posting about a study comparing use of the phrase “Allow Natural…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) In the first two posts of “code discussion week” we talked about how preferences for cardiopulmonary…
by: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD What if the above form was the default for patients with serious illness? Most current advance directive…