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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

July 28, 2022

We are fortunate today to interview two oncologists whose research has catapulted palliative care forward: Jennifer Temel, author of the…

July 21, 2022

The science of balancing safety and independence of older drivers has come a long way. Some key points from our…

July 14, 2022

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the…

July 7, 2022

On today’s podcast we welcome back Haider Warraich to talk about pain. Now this may surprise our frequent listeners as…

June 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. She falls and breaks her hip. Should…

June 23, 2022

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits…

June 20, 2022

Stories from our colleagues in Ukraine have been both inspiring and troubling. Staff has been working overtime with fewer resources,…

June 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. For…

June 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. This was in part due…

June 2, 2022

We are two and a half years into the COVID pandemic. We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates,…