If you asked clinical researchers to describe the most important advances in research methodology over the past generation, many would…
I would love the input of GeriPal readers on an issue. The commonly used phrases, “demented patient,” or “demented person,”…
There is a lot of focus on what elders with dementia can’t do. But what about more discussion of what…
At our most recent UCSF Division of Geriatricsjournal club, we had a very lively discussion about an article examining whether…
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) gave us good reason to be optimistic about the future of our organization when it…
In 1927, Francis Peabody remarkedthat “The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.” Medicine…
There is a very interesting study in the January issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that characterizes…
A study in the American Journal of Public Healthexamining mammogram use in older persons found that 18% of women with…
As noted on the Pallimed blog, a study published last week in Annals of Internal Medicine reports on adverse events…
Over the past year, I have had several 80+ patients, combat veterans of WWII, who have had very significant symptoms…