LIFE IN THE END ZONE

My father will be 90 next month. He lives in a nursing home because he needs help with all the most basic tasks—eating, dressing, bathing, w...

Early in my career as a geriatrician, a colleague of mine asked me to see a hospitalized patient of his who was having a great deal of diffi...

 Nearly 25 years ago, gerontologists wrote about what they called “everyday ethics” in the lives of older people. They wanted to move the f...

In Britain, a growing number of companies are recognizing the wisdom of providing eldercare assistance to their employees. This isn’t a matt...

At a time when most of the news about health and healthcare is pretty bleak, it’s nice to hear that one program for older patients is doing ...

I just read a report describing the state of palliative care around the world  that made me appreciate how far we have come in the US. Here...

When I was a medical resident at Boston City Hospital, a large, public, inner city hospital, I began wondering whether hospitals sometimes c...

Recently, a friend commented that she was not sure whether or not to agree to a “DNR order” for her 90 year-old mother. Her mother has demen...

The saga of the pregnant brain dead woman in Texas, about which I blogged a couple of weeks ago, is now mercifully over. A Texas judge ruled...

“Patients’ costs skyrocket; specialists’ incomes soar,” screams the headline in the lead article in the Sunday New York Times . The thrust ...