Have We Improved Outcomes for Elderly Patients Admitted with Heart Failure?
Hospitalization for heart failure is exceedingly common, accounting for more than 1.1 million hospitalizations in 2006. It is also the…
Hospitalization for heart failure is exceedingly common, accounting for more than 1.1 million hospitalizations in 2006. It is also the…
It has almost been a year since our first post here on GeriPal. Since this first post we have had…
Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…
The Emergency Department phoned my office right before lunch. I was on call for our general IM group, so when…
Geripal experts: If you have to share ONE TIP with your fellow Geriatricians and Gerontologists about palliative care of older…
Roughly 150 members gathered last week at a Town Hall meeting at last week’s annual meeting of the Society of…
It is commonly thought that older adults are not the usual suspects when it comes to substance abuse disorders. But…
I would love the input of GeriPal readers on an issue. The commonly used phrases, “demented patient,” or “demented person,”…
“Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so.” So said Angela Fagerlin and Carl Schneider…
As a Geriatrician, it is fair to say that we work with a fair number of patients who have disabilities.…