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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…

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…

August 26, 2010

One out of every four of us will die while residing in a nursing home. For most of us, that…

June 3, 2010

If you asked clinical researchers to describe the most important advances in research methodology over the past generation, many would…

May 21, 2010

Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…

April 27, 2010

On my way out of the hospital this evening I ran into a soon-to-be palliative care fellow. Our conversation quickly…

April 13, 2010

It is a story that happens all too frequently in a fragmented healthcare system. A woman with cancer on chemotherapy…

April 10, 2010

Rob Pardi’s comments in the Pallimed discussion affected me deeply. His honesty, integrity, and willingness to share were so impressive that…

April 9, 2010

The New York Times recently ran an article titled “Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live”. The article told…

April 8, 2010

There is a lot of focus on what elders with dementia can’t do. But what about more discussion of what…