The MMSE Saga: An Assault of the Values of the Academic Profession
January 22, 2012
The MMSE saga has attracted great attention here on GeriPal and elsewhere since the breakthrough NEJM article of Newman and…
Prognostic Indices In Patient Care: Useful or Waste of Time?
January 10, 2012
Many clinical decisions in older persons are dependent on life expectancy. For example, as life expectancy declines, cancer screening is…
SIT DOWN!!
December 12, 2011
Sometimes the best ideas are so simple that you both marvel at their eloquence and wonder why you never thought…
Quality Indicators Can Cause Harm in Older Patients: An Inconvenient Truth
November 13, 2011
Quality indicators are used to measure the quality of health care delivered to patients. Quality indicators are used extensively in…
Jane Gross on the Failings of Medicare
October 20, 2011
In the most recent Sunday New York Times, Jane Gross gives a devastating critiqueof Medicare’s Failure to support the needs…
Poster Sessions at Medical Meetings: A Better Approach
October 11, 2011
The poster session is a ubiquitous part of most medical and scientific meetings. The format is pretty much always the…
Befuddlement at Hospital Discharge
September 12, 2011
Hospitalizations present a host of dangers to an older patient, and perhaps one of the most hazardous parts of hospitalization…
Hospital Medicine is Part of Primary Care
August 22, 2011
There has been a lot of policy discussions about the emergence of the hospitalist movement. A decade ago, when a…
The (Ir)Relevance of Medical Research to Older Patients
August 8, 2011
Research studies often are conducted as if older patient’s don’t exist. Even when the disease being studied predominantly effects older…
Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease: A Case For Caution
July 18, 2011
Recently, a group of distinguished neuroscientists commissioned by the Alzheimer’s Association and the National Institute on Aging updated guidelines for…