Call for Action
October 3, 2010
Diane Meier asked us to post this call for action to GeriPal. Please act! Cross posted at Pallimed with terrific example…
Rx for US Health Care: Grand Junction?
October 1, 2010
Atul Gawande’s latest piece on Palliative Careis fantastic, and I hope you have read his “McAllen, Texas piece” on the…
Have We Improved Outcomes for Elderly Patients Admitted with Heart Failure?
June 2, 2010
Hospitalization for heart failure is exceedingly common, accounting for more than 1.1 million hospitalizations in 2006. It is also the…
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…
Should Medical Societies Boycott Arizona?
May 6, 2010
Roughly 150 members gathered last week at a Town Hall meeting at last week’s annual meeting of the Society of…
America’s Best Hospitals: A Devastating Critique
April 22, 2010
America’s leading teaching hospitals anxiously await the release of the annual US News hospital ratings. The “winning” hospitals will heavily…
Driving and Dementia: An Excellent Guideline, and A Missed Opportunity
April 18, 2010
All Posts · American Geriatrics Society · Dementia · Geriatrics · Health Policy · Law · Mental Health · Relationships
The American Academy of Neurologyrecently released a very useful guideline on the evaluation of driving risk in patients with dementia.…
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…
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…