LIFE IN THE END ZONE

The British, I’ve argued previously, are ahead of us in health care for older people. They have more robust geriatric and palliative care p...

Kaiser Health News , one of the best sources of reporting about issues affecting older people, ran a story last week about the re-emergence...

The Senate confirmed Tom Price (R-Georgia) by a 52-47 vote as the new Chief of the Department of Health and Human Services this week. Much ...

The United Kingdom is, in many respects, ahead of the United States in its approach to both geriatrics and palliative care. Cicely Saunders...

My mother’s friend Lixie died last month. Eight months ago, her husband (my father) died. And just about exactly a year ago, my mother’s fr...

On this weekend of the Women’s Marches—175,000 of us marched in Boston alone—it’s fitting to remember that aging is predominantly a women’s...

Kaiser Health News —which by the way has some of the most interesting and important articles relevant to the older population in its “aging...

In 2003, I decided to branch out from geriatrics and try something new. Well, a little new. I recreated myself as a palliative care physi...

I’ve been searching for something upbeat to say about health care for older people in 2017. It’s been difficult to find anything newsworthy...