LIFE IN THE END ZONE

             To date, 68,000 residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have died from COVID-19, accounting fo...

Nursing homes are at a crossroads. Unpopular before the pandemic, Covid-19 has brought them to a new low. There was the epidemic itself, whi...

More of my blog posts deal with dementia than with any other subject and the news about Alzheimer’s disease over the years has been large...

Nearly six months into the pandemic, we ought to know the important risk factors for serious illness or death from Covid-19. Whether becaus...

Residents of long-term care facilities in the US have been hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic than have any other group. They have almost ...

For years, Medicare has defined a visit with the doctor, what it calls an "encounter" as comprising the history, physical exam...

Here's a short video pitched to physicians, extolling family caregivers and explaining how partnering with caregivers can help both ph...

Here is a short video I made for family caregivers.

            A new study of 5700 consecutive COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the New York area is making waves   because it reports a hig...

Frontline physicians are reporting a mysterious phenomenon—as hospitals began preparing for and in some cases started receiving an onslaugh...