Surrogate Decision Making in the ICU
Imagine your loved one is very sick in the ICU. So sick that the ICU doctor believes that there is…
Imagine your loved one is very sick in the ICU. So sick that the ICU doctor believes that there is…
About half of all operations performed in the United States are performed on persons over the age of 65. So…
There has been a lot of good news about palliative care in the last year. Most notably is one well…
A couple of recent articles in the lay press expose the fallacy that publication in a scientific journal means “it…
This month’s American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias offers us something unusual but highly relevant . Chatterton, Baker…
The subject of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) has a plethora of articles in the lay literature, read intensively by…
Photo by: DGies / Flickr When the clock strikes midnight on January 1st, the very oldest of the baby boomers…
As a geriatrician and an ethnomusicologist, I have had ample opportunity to observe the impact of music upon gait among…
Telemonitoring is a novel disease management strategy that sounds wonderful. But just because something sounds wonderful does not mean it…
Healthy People 2020 has been released, and there is good news for GeriPals. (See Ken’s post soliciting suggestions from GeriPal readers…