Rethinking Prisoner Release Policies from a Geriatrics Perspective
Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…
Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…
On my way out of the hospital this evening I ran into a soon-to-be palliative care fellow. Our conversation quickly…
It is a story that happens all too frequently in a fragmented healthcare system. A woman with cancer on chemotherapy…
Rob Pardi’s comments in the Pallimed discussion affected me deeply. His honesty, integrity, and willingness to share were so impressive that…
The New York Times recently ran an article titled “Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live”. The article told…
There is a lot of focus on what elders with dementia can’t do. But what about more discussion of what…
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too often with extreme levels…
We recently discusseda study that described the common practice of obtaining screening mammograms in women with dementia. We considered how…
There is a very interesting study in the January issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that characterizes…
Feeding tubes are often placed in the hospital setting for patients with advanced dementia, even though there is pretty much a lack…