What’s wrong with the question, “Does Donald Trump have dementia?”
May 31, 2017
There is a very important question floating around right now: does Donald Trump have dementia? Admit it, Geriatricians. You have…
GeriPal Podcast: Laura Hanson on Improving Advanced Dementia Care in Nursing Homes
April 4, 2017
Advance Care Planning · Dementia · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Mental Health
Today’s GeriPal podcast features Laura Hanson, Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Laura…
Do Proton Pump Inhibitors Increase Risk for Dementia?
July 5, 2016
Case: Ms. P is a 76 year old lady with a past medical history of GERD, osteoporosis status post right…
Families caring for families
December 28, 2015
by: Amy Getter, who blogs regularly at hospicediary.com “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”…
PTSD at the end of life
December 17, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I want to draw GeriPal readers attention to a remarkably powerful storyin the current issue of…
The experience of dementia OUTSIDE the nursing home: pain, weight loss, and transitions in care
August 31, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD About 4.5 million people have dementia in the US. Thanks to the fantastic work of palliative…
#ThickenedLiquidChallenge on Making Sense of Alzheimers
May 8, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Check it out folks, the #ThickenedLiquidChallenge is now a featured video on MakingSenseofAlzheimers.org, a new site out of…
Potpourri from clinical work VIII: TVs, tissues, timing, losing stuff, & no to hospice
April 10, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD This is the 8th installment in my occasional post-being-on-service-digestion-of-what-just-happened-via-blogging potpourri from clinical work series. TVs. Our…
#Thickenedliquidchallenge from a patient’s point of view: provocative comments and a poll
February 25, 2015
by: Stan Terman Michael Ellenbogen has dementia. He took the #thickenedliquidchallenge. He never wants to have thickenedliquids again, even if…
Working with rather than against speech & swallow therapists #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 23, 2015
By Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Sarah Stranberg, Speech Pathologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Consider the following vignettes, common in…