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…
Singing while you walk and learning to communicate between the towers of academia
December 13, 2010
As a geriatrician and an ethnomusicologist, I have had ample opportunity to observe the impact of music upon gait among…
Telemonitoring: Sounds Great. But it doesn’t work.
December 12, 2010
Telemonitoring is a novel disease management strategy that sounds wonderful. But just because something sounds wonderful does not mean it…
Older Adults and Quality of Life are New Topics in Healthy People 2020!
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…
Sex and drugs (with or without rock and roll)
December 7, 2010
Annals of Internal Medicine published an interesting articletoday on sexual activity in 75 to 95 year-old men. Using data from…