Eric Widera wins Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Award!
January 11, 2011
Congratulations to GeriPal co-founder Eric Widera for winning an early career Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Award for improving care of patients near the…
Death Panel Legacy
January 5, 2011
Yesterday, legislation that would have reimbursed physicians for advance care planning discussions was stripped from Medicare regulations related to the…
Nip/tuck GeriPal Style: A New Year, A New Look
January 3, 2011
It has been a little over a year and a half since we started GeriPal. In that time our little…
Surrogate Decision Making in the ICU
December 30, 2010
Imagine your loved one is very sick in the ICU. So sick that the ICU doctor believes that there is…
Are Most Published Studies Lies?
December 18, 2010
A couple of recent articles in the lay press expose the fallacy that publication in a scientific journal means “it…
CAM Resources
December 16, 2010
The subject of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) has a plethora of articles in the lay literature, read intensively by…
Stimulating Interest in a Career in Geriatrics – The Scholarship Award Summit
December 15, 2010
Photo by: DGies / Flickr When the clock strikes midnight on January 1st, the very oldest of the baby boomers…
Older Adults and Quality of Life are New Topics in Healthy People 2020!
December 9, 2010
Healthy People 2020 has been released, and there is good news for GeriPals. (See Ken’s post soliciting suggestions from GeriPal readers…
AND orders: A Confusing Conjuction that Attempts to Allow a Natural Death
December 6, 2010
Paula Span has an excellent article out today in the NY Times titled “D.N.R. by Another Name.” In it, she…
Substance Abuse in Late Life
December 4, 2010
The house next to mine was busted for running a meth lab yesterday. Scary – our whole neighborhood could…