“Do not punctuate the end of your life with a senseless act of brutality!”
January 22, 2010
Words have power. Language has power. The words we use may comfort or shock, allay or provoke, sooth or batter…
Post Traumatic Stress in Late Life
January 18, 2010
Over the past year, I have had several 80+ patients, combat veterans of WWII, who have had very significant symptoms…
Evidence-Based Medicine in Clinically Complex Elders – Barking up the Wrong Tree?
January 7, 2010
For years, many academics (myself included) have decried the lack of rigorous clinical trial evidence to inform the care of…
Overlooking the Frail Years
January 3, 2010
Paula Span raises a number of interesting issues in this poston the NY Times New Old Age Blog. She presents…
Death and Taxes: It’s Shaping Up to be a Busy Year
December 30, 2009
The Wall Street Journal published an article today entitled “Rich Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man.” The article describes…
Tarenflurbil for Alzheimer Disease: A novel agent meets with great disappointment
December 24, 2009
The current issue of JAMA reports on the largest trialever conducted for a drug designed to slow the progression of…
Judged by the Color of their Skin
December 23, 2009
I have an nonagenarian who is a racist. I don’t think you can use the words she uses to describe…
Stocking Stuffers for Your Favorite Geriatrician
December 22, 2009
Don’t know what to get your favorite geriatrician for the holidays? Out of ideas as you bought your geriatrician a…
Cheating Death: A Book Lost in Definitions
December 18, 2009
“Death is not a single event, but a process that may be interrupted, even reversed. And here’s the exciting part…
My last few days with my grandmother
December 17, 2009
It was the a Monday morning in November when I got the first call from my uncle Gili – my…