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…
Tarenflurbil for Alzheimer Disease: A novel agent meets with great disappointment
December 24, 2009
The current issue of JAMA reports on the largest trialever conducted for a drug designed to slow the progression of…
Judged by the Color of their Skin
December 23, 2009
I have an nonagenarian who is a racist. I don’t think you can use the words she uses to describe…
Stocking Stuffers for Your Favorite Geriatrician
December 22, 2009
Don’t know what to get your favorite geriatrician for the holidays? Out of ideas as you bought your geriatrician a…
My last few days with my grandmother
December 17, 2009
It was the a Monday morning in November when I got the first call from my uncle Gili – my…
Primary Care Providers Are Challenged by Dementia Care
December 15, 2009
Care Managers · Dementia · Diabetes · Education · Geriatrics · Mental Health · Primary Care · Seniors
An excellent article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society provides insights into primary care physicians views of dementia…