There is a lot of focus on what elders with dementia can’t do. But what about more discussion of what…
We need your help in identifying key topics for new inter-disciplinary JPM series: Idea: To create a regular series in…
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too often with extreme levels…
Finally. This debate has been waiting to happen ever since NHO added the “PC” to its name back in the…
We recently discusseda study that described the common practice of obtaining screening mammograms in women with dementia. We considered how…
Last week a physician colleague expressed her concern about signing routine hospice admission orders for her elderly patient with end…
I just read Chris Feudtner’s brief piece, “The Breadth of Hopes,” in the New England Journal. Among other things, the…
The New England Journal of Medicine released a study today revealing some awareness in a minority of patients diagnosed with…
A new workshop on the usage of online social media has been added to the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly this March…
A friend recently forwarded me an update to a story first reported in the Washington Post in May 2009 about…