Insights into Geriatrics by Cartoonist Roz Chast
May 23, 2015
Roz Chast, a beloved and well known cartoonist for the New Yorker, has written a brilliant book that should be…
Outcomes of In-Hospital CPR in Patients Receiving Dialysis
May 22, 2015
We’ve talked a lot about the prognosis after receiving in-hospital CPR in this blog (here, here, and here to name a…
Yes, There is a Medical App for That
May 20, 2015
At this years AGS Annual Meeting, Manuel Eskildsen, Alice Pomidor, Amit Shah, Niharika Suchak, and I led a session aimed…
Finding the Workforce to Care for an Aging Population
May 19, 2015
Returning from the American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, I am struck by the thought that the United States’ health…
The AGS Annual Meeting Program Cover
May 11, 2015
I am thrilled that the AGS is using my images on the cover of their Annual Meeting program. The collection…
Celebrate nurses week by stopping the customer satisfaction nonsense
May 10, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Happy nurses week! A special double happiness to the nurses who are also mothers today. This…
#ThickenedLiquidChallenge on Making Sense of Alzheimers
May 8, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Check it out folks, the #ThickenedLiquidChallenge is now a featured video on MakingSenseofAlzheimers.org, a new site out of…
Fatal Falls Rising in Older Adults
May 7, 2015
Figure 2. (above) Age-adjusted death rates, by cause of death among adults aged 65 and over: United States, 2000–2013 The…
Anticoagulation in Elders who Fall
May 6, 2015
If you had suggested to me only a short time ago that older people who fall should be taken off…
Victory Day in Moscow: Honoring the Older Generation
April 27, 2015
I had good reason to miss the 2012 AGS meeting as the dates overlapped with Victory Day in Moscow. Victory…