Does Having a Sense of Purpose Prevent Alzheimer Disease?
March 30, 2010
At our most recent UCSF Division of Geriatricsjournal club, we had a very lively discussion about an article examining whether…
Jennie Chin Hansen: New CEO of the American Geriatrics Society
March 22, 2010
All Posts · American Geriatrics Society · Geriatrics · Health Policy · Long Term Care · Nursing Homes · Seniors
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) gave us good reason to be optimistic about the future of our organization when it…
Social Workers Are Awesome
March 15, 2010
In 1927, Francis Peabody remarkedthat “The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.” Medicine…
More on dementia and mammograms
February 17, 2010
All Posts · Cancer · Care Managers · Communication · Dementia · End-of-Life · Geriatrics · Mental Health · Palliative Care · Primary Care · Screening
We recently discusseda study that described the common practice of obtaining screening mammograms in women with dementia. We considered how…
The last year of life in the oldest-old
February 14, 2010
All Posts · Care Managers · Disability · End-of-Life · Geriatrics · Health Policy · Long Term Care · Seniors
There is a very interesting study in the January issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that characterizes…
The Cultural Distance Between Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
February 5, 2010
I just read Chris Feudtner’s brief piece, “The Breadth of Hopes,” in the New England Journal. Among other things, the…
What a nursing assistant will tell us…if we ask
January 29, 2010
A friend recently forwarded me an update to a story first reported in the Washington Post in May 2009 about…
Mammograms in Women with Dementia: What’s the Problem?
January 29, 2010
All Posts · Cancer · Care Managers · Dementia · Geriatrics · Mental Health · Primary Care · Prognosis · Screening · Seniors
A study in the American Journal of Public Healthexamining mammogram use in older persons found that 18% of women with…
Post Traumatic Stress in Late Life
January 18, 2010
Over the past year, I have had several 80+ patients, combat veterans of WWII, who have had very significant symptoms…
Evidence-Based Medicine in Clinically Complex Elders – Barking up the Wrong Tree?
January 7, 2010
For years, many academics (myself included) have decried the lack of rigorous clinical trial evidence to inform the care of…