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Singing while you walk and learning to communicate between the towers of academia

December 13, 2010

As a geriatrician and an ethnomusicologist, I have had ample opportunity to observe the impact of music upon gait among…

December 5, 2010

The AMA Physician Consortium For Performance Improvement has released a draft set of performance measures for persons with dementia. The…

October 8, 2010

As a practicing primary care geriatrician, I am always on the lookout for good resources that can help support my…

August 24, 2010

by: Bree Johnston For the past two months (started July 2010) I have been in Scotland working in variousgeriatrics and…

July 20, 2010

by: Robert Killeen MD Three Issues of Hospice I’d like to address three recurrent problems I’ve found in the field…

June 21, 2010

Hospice programs provide much needed care and support for patients, families and caregivers for people with end-stage dementias. Thanks to…

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…

March 30, 2010

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