Today we discuss the growing trend of palliative care doctors seeing more and more patients, sometimes with conditions not ordinarily considered.

Today we discuss the growing trend of palliative care doctors seeing more and more patients, sometimes with conditions not ordinarily considered.

Increasingly, in the age of corporate medicine, the fundamental values of U.S. health system leaders and clinicians are diverging, to the detriment of trust, communication, morale, and patient care.

These criminals start shell companies, sign up unsuspecting seniors, and then bill for nonexistent services.

New York (April 24, 2026)—Today, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) announced that Debra Saliba, MD, MPH, AGSF and Alex Smith, MD, MS, MPH will succeed Joseph G. Ouslander, MD, AGSF as…

In recognition of “National Healthcare Decisions Day,” the “PREPARE for Your Care” program at UC San Francisco is making it easier for clinicians to remind their patients of the importance of planning...

When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved benzgalantamine (Zunveyl) in July 2024 for Alzheimer’s disease, it was hailed by its manufacturer as a ‘major breakthrough’.1 In reality, benzga...

We haven’t lost that loving feeling. The GeriPal pub-crawl is back, and this time we are bringing it to San Diego during the AAHPM-HPNA Annual Assembly. The Pub Crawl starts at 8 pm on Thursday, March...

Eric Widera, MD published an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine highlighting why the push to adopt blood biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease should not replace the essential role of primary care. He…

Notes from a Family Meeting is a newsletter where I hope to join the curious conversations that hang about the intersections of health and the human condition.

This Viewpoint offers a reminder, amid new laboratory testing for Alzheimer disease, of the primary care practitioner’s important role in functional assessment of activities of daily living.

Prolonged hallway care was found to be associated with an increased risk of delirium and severe agitation in patients living with dementia, but not in our entire cohort of older adults in our multiva...

Attention to Distress Among Colleagues in Clinical Settings

Hospitalized older adults with serious illness may be discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) with the hope of improving strength to live independently and receive further disease-directed tre...