LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Paula Span of the New York Times did the geriatric community a great service this past week by highlighting a change in coverage for physi...

Last week I posted the first half of a Q&A with Roz Chast, author of the wonderful book, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant...

Roz Chast first published  Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?  in May of 2014. I thought it was one of the most honest, trenc...

A new study published in Nature offers some potentially good news. The researchers report that a monoclonal antibody given intravenously t...

Michael Kinsley’s Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide isn’t exactly a guidebook to “life’s last chapter,” as the author promises. The book does ta...

One of the most disturbing articles I read this past week--from a geriatric perspective-- was a piece in the NY Times about a new developm...