Skin Failure: A New Paradigm
October 30, 2017
by Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF, CWSP Skin failure is an emerging concept that deserves wider acceptance, particularly in the…
Palliative Wound Care: A New Frontier
September 25, 2017
By Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF, CWS-P I recently completed the revised chapter on pressure injuries for the Geriatrics Review…
A Geriatrician Reviews Cicero’s “On Old Age”
April 5, 2017
by: Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF As a geriatrician entering the twilight of my career, I look to the philosophers of…
An Interview with Roz Chast – Author of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
September 13, 2016
by: Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF I had a chance to interview Roz Chast, the New Yorker cartoonist and best selling…
Pressure Ulcers: An Underappreciated Public Health Issue
March 7, 2016
byJeffrey M Levine MD As a geriatric fellow back in the 1980’s I became intrigued by the wide prevalence of…
Aging Veterans on the Cover of The Gerontologist
February 8, 2016
I always had a soft spot for veterans, as my father saw action in the Pacific Theater and I grew…
Music & Art on the Cover of The Gerontologist
January 6, 2016
The current cover of The Gerontologist features a musician at the local Octoberfest, a yearly block party that celebrates the…
Recognizing the Incurable in Ancient Egypt
November 2, 2015
by Jeffrey M Levine MD The art of medicine is as old as human civilization, and what we think is…
Ambulating Manhattan
September 28, 2015
Across the globe, more than half the world’s population lives in cities, and there is a growing recognition that urban…
Recent Covers on The Gerontologist
September 8, 2015
The most recent issues of The Gerontologist (June and August 2015) feature photos I took in 2012 on a trip…