Debunking the “But I Already See Old People” Myth in Medical Education
What happens when you randomly assign medical students to either a mandatory two week rotation in specialized geriatric training or…
What happens when you randomly assign medical students to either a mandatory two week rotation in specialized geriatric training or…
If you asked clinical researchers to describe the most important advances in research methodology over the past generation, many would…
Hospitalization for heart failure is exceedingly common, accounting for more than 1.1 million hospitalizations in 2006. It is also the…
May 4th’s Health Affairs contains a lot of food for thought for Geriatricians and Palliative Care providers thinking about the…
Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…
It is commonly thought that older adults are not the usual suspects when it comes to substance abuse disorders. But…
I would love the input of GeriPal readers on an issue. The commonly used phrases, “demented patient,” or “demented person,”…
The American Academy of Neurologyrecently released a very useful guideline on the evaluation of driving risk in patients with dementia…
There is a lot of focus on what elders with dementia can’t do. But what about more discussion of what…
We need your help in identifying key topics for new inter-disciplinary JPM series: Idea: To create a regular series in…