April 28, 2016

How Much Help Does a Helper Need for a Helper to Give Help?

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For some time, I’ve been insisting that the exclusive focus on patients and doctors in our discussions of “shared decision-making” is mispl...
April 25, 2016

Where's the "Assist" in "Assisted Living?"

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Assisted living (AL) exists for one very simple reason: most older people don’t want to live in a nursing home. They want privacy and auton...
April 18, 2016

If it's Good for Wisconsin...

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The big news in palliative care circles this week was the results of the PerryUndem Research poll that surveyed physicians on their views ...
April 11, 2016

Ready, Aim, Fire

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Firearms are a geriatric issue. The reason: suicide is more common in older people than in the general population and guns are the method o...
April 04, 2016

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The most interesting article I came upon this past week dealing with an issue of great importance to older people wasn’t in JAMA or the Ne...
March 28, 2016

Make No Bones About It

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For some time, I’ve tried to find an up-to-date list of the medications most commonly prescribed to older people. Sounds like a simple ques...
March 14, 2016

Pay to Plan

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When Medicare began allowing payment to physicians for advance care planning on January 1, bloggers and editorialists and columnists all co...
March 07, 2016

What We Have in Common(wealth)

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A year ago, I reported on an interesting comparative study of older adults: the Commonwealth Fund surveyed the health care experience of a...
February 28, 2016

All Things Dartmouth

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For the last 20 years, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice—it’s added a few words to its name over time—has pro...
February 24, 2016

Geriatric "Our Bodies, Ourselves?"

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Not quite "Our Bodies, Ourselves," but the new report from the Dartmouth Atlas is all about the older person's experience of...