Geriatrics Archives | Page 34 of 39 | A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional

May’s Health Affairs, A Case of Medical Homelessness, and Reinventing Primary Care

May 24, 2010

May 4th’s Health Affairs contains a lot of food for thought for Geriatricians and Palliative Care providers thinking about the…

May 21, 2010

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

May 6, 2010

It is commonly thought that older adults are not the usual suspects when it comes to substance abuse disorders. But…

May 4, 2010

I would love the input of GeriPal readers on an issue. The commonly used phrases, “demented patient,” or “demented person,”…

April 18, 2010

The American Academy of Neurologyrecently released a very useful guideline on the evaluation of driving risk in patients with dementia…

April 8, 2010

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

April 4, 2010

We need your help in identifying key topics for new inter-disciplinary JPM series: Idea: To create a regular series in…

March 30, 2010

At our most recent UCSF Division of Geriatricsjournal club, we had a very lively discussion about an article examining whether…

March 22, 2010

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) gave us good reason to be optimistic about the future of our organization when it…

March 15, 2010

In 1927, Francis Peabody remarkedthat “The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.” Medicine…