Outcomes of In-Hospital CPR in Patients Receiving Dialysis
May 22, 2015
We’ve talked a lot about the prognosis after receiving in-hospital CPR in this blog (here, here, and here to name a…
Yes, There is a Medical App for That
May 20, 2015
At this years AGS Annual Meeting, Manuel Eskildsen, Alice Pomidor, Amit Shah, Niharika Suchak, and I led a session aimed…
#ThickenedLiquidChallenge on Making Sense of Alzheimers
May 8, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Check it out folks, the #ThickenedLiquidChallenge is now a featured video on MakingSenseofAlzheimers.org, a new site out of…
Ageism in Healthcare Hurts Our Patients
March 14, 2015
by: Stephanie E. Rogers, MD @SERogersMD For the first time in human history, adults older than age 65 will outnumber…
Searching for Successful Aging
March 13, 2015
by: Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF (jlevinemd@shcny.com), www.jmlevinemd.com Successful aging is hard to define. The concept took root in 1987…
How to Succeed at the #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
March 4, 2015
by: Kelley Babcock, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, @kelleybabcock The #thickenedliquidchallengehas certainly raised awareness of how difficult it can be for patients…
Breathing Heartfelt Care
February 14, 2015
by: Kim Evanoski, CMC MPA LMSW Sometimes on the walking trail I get to thinking about my week. The quiet…
The True Art of Medicine: Atul Gawande and The Being Mortal Documentary
February 9, 2015
by: Stephanie E. Rogers, MD @SERogersMD “The two big unfixables are aging and dying…you can’t fix those,” notes physician-writer Dr…
Top 25 Studies in Hospice and Palliative Care (#HPMtop25)
February 5, 2015
A recent article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society published a list of 27 “landmark” peer-reviewed foundational articles…
The Meaning of the Challenge: It’s about More Than Thickened Liquids
February 4, 2015
by: Suzanne Gordon The other day, with much trepidation, I took the Thickened Liquid Challenge. As a well known wimp,…