Eric Widera wins Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Award!
January 11, 2011
Congratulations to GeriPal co-founder Eric Widera for winning an early career Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Award for improving care of patients near the…
Death Panel Legacy
January 5, 2011
Yesterday, legislation that would have reimbursed physicians for advance care planning discussions was stripped from Medicare regulations related to the…
Nip/tuck GeriPal Style: A New Year, A New Look
January 3, 2011
It has been a little over a year and a half since we started GeriPal. In that time our little…
Surrogate Decision Making in the ICU
December 30, 2010
Imagine your loved one is very sick in the ICU. So sick that the ICU doctor believes that there is…
Outcomes of Surgery in Older Persons: How Could We Know So Little?
December 28, 2010
About half of all operations performed in the United States are performed on persons over the age of 65. So…
A Negative Palliative Care Trial?
December 21, 2010
There has been a lot of good news about palliative care in the last year. Most notably is one well…
Are Most Published Studies Lies?
December 18, 2010
A couple of recent articles in the lay press expose the fallacy that publication in a scientific journal means “it…
Singing to people who have dementia
December 16, 2010
This month’s American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias offers us something unusual but highly relevant . Chatterton, Baker…
CAM Resources
December 16, 2010
The subject of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) has a plethora of articles in the lay literature, read intensively by…
Stimulating Interest in a Career in Geriatrics – The Scholarship Award Summit
December 15, 2010
Photo by: DGies / Flickr When the clock strikes midnight on January 1st, the very oldest of the baby boomers…