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Transfers from the Hospital to Nursing Home: An F- Grade For Quality

August 26, 2013

Huge numbers of older persons transition from hospitals to the nursing home. Often, an older hospitalized patient needs skilled nursing…

June 17, 2013

Before reading any further, stop to think about the last older homeless adult you saw. If you are a…

March 4, 2012

Early in my career, I cared for a gentleman with advanced pancreatic cancer. The recurrence of his cancer was devastating,…

November 13, 2011

Quality indicators are used to measure the quality of health care delivered to patients. Quality indicators are used extensively in…

April 1, 2011

In a breakthrough that could revolutionize medical practice, the University of Mumchester announced today that a new technique has been…

December 9, 2010

Healthy People 2020 has been released, and there is good news for GeriPals. (See Ken’s post soliciting suggestions from GeriPal readers…

December 7, 2010

Annals of Internal Medicine published an interesting articletoday on sexual activity in 75 to 95 year-old men. Using data from…

November 15, 2010

What would happen to the quality of patient care in the United States if we had more time to spend…

November 14, 2010

Photo by Patrick Q It’s time to get comfortable with the notion that older Americans have satisfying sexual relationships. Studies…

October 26, 2010

Geriatric Medicine is obsessed with functional status and disability. Much of the practice of Geriatrics revolves around the prevention or…