LIFE IN THE END ZONE

The last year of life is often filled with trips to the emergency room, admissions to the hospital—frequently the ICU—and multiple visits t...

We all have the same final destination: next blog post will discuss how we get from here to there.

Demographically, the US in 2050 will look much the way Germany and Italy do today: 20% of the population will be over age 65. Comparing the...

Every ten years since 1961, the White House has convened a Conference on Aging. It’s an opportunity for leaders in the field of Geriatrics ...

Coming soon: blog post on 2015 White House Conference on Aging

Shared decision-making has become something of a sacred cow in medicine, even though few physicians actually practice it. There is certainl...

Last week was a tough week for humankind. My heart goes out to the hundreds of refugees and would-be immigrants who drowned trying to flee o...

There’s nothing much new in the latest edition of the Alzheimer’s Association Alzheimer’s Facts and Figures ,  which came out last month. O...

Kudos to the Huffington Post for running an article about the new report from the FrameWorks Institute, “Gauging Aging: Mapping the Gaps ...

A provocative opinion piece in JAMA Neurology   offers new hope for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. University of California Santa Ba...