Autonomy for Frail Elders
November 14, 2010
What does autonomy mean to a 95 year old woman with disability, dementia, and heart failure residing in a nursing home? Beauchamp…
Rethinking Prisoner Release Policies from a Geriatrics Perspective
May 21, 2010
Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…
Thoughts on Disability
April 29, 2010
As a Geriatrician, it is fair to say that we work with a fair number of patients who have disabilities.…
Destination Therapy and Reversing Frailty
December 11, 2009
For those geriatric and palliative care practitioners who glossed over the recent NEJM publication of the Heartmate II trialas yet…