LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Maybe nobody paid much attention to National Healthcare Decisions Day because it fell on the first day of Passover or because it came right...

My father turned 90 today. He has Parkinson’s disease and dementia, both of which involve his brain, but the rest of his organs are going s...

My mother got a letter from her doctor this week informing her that he is going into “concierge medicine.” If she wants to keep him as her d...

It’s that time of year again, when the Alzheimer’s Association releases its annual report: Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures . The 2014 ...

Geriatrics would be a good deal easier if every older person suffered from just one medical condition. But most elderly people have more tha...

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 ...