LIFE IN THE END ZONE

The May issue of the health policy journal,  Health Affairs,  includes a short but important article by  two researchers from Harvard’s Joi...

            As soon as I walked into Mrs. L’s room, I knew something was wrong. She was sitting quietly in her wheelchair, her head bowed;...

“Low levels of caregiver training are a missed opportunity for the health care system,” comments a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicin...

Every so often I use this blog to discuss public policy issues that are of interest to older people--but not only to older people. Immigrati...

This week revealed the long-awaited results of a trial of the “ Serious Illness Program ,” the meticulously designed and carefully studied ...

What Katy Butler gets spectacularly right in her new book, The Art of Dying Well , is that if we want life's last chapter to be a good ...

I confess that I tremendously enjoyed The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2009).  It wasn’t profound ...

I haven’t written a blog post in a while. Not because I’ve been ill or travelling, but simply because I couldn’t find anything I was intere...

This past week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article titled, “The Hottest Hair Color of the Moment is…Gray.” Granted, it was in the “st...

As an ever-growing percentage of Americans live to extreme old age, with a correspondingly large proportion surviving long enough to become...