Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles. USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institut...

RESHMA A. MERCHANT1, BINTAO LI2,3, KENG-BEE YAP4, TZE-PIN NG2,3,∗ 1Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore 2Gerontological Research Programme, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 3Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Email: [email protected] 4Department of Geriatric Medicine, Alexandra Hospital, S...

Thyrotoxicosis in an Elderly Patient Simulating Infectious Gastroenteritis Moe TO1*, Htwe TH2, Yin TA3 and Ani T2 1Department of Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS, Birmingham, UK 2Department of General Internal Medicine, Heart of England NHS, Birmingham, UK 3Department of Respiratory Medicine, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Doncaster and Ba...

USA, CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School ofMedicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Me...

Sir, This year Sahlgrens University hospital in Gothenburg has launched a geriatric unit specializing in alternative / complementary medicine. Avd 606 SU/Högsbo is a normal somatic geriatric ward, working with a wide range of disease in the elderly, stroke rehabilitation not included. The unit honours the geriatric departments guidelines of evidence based medicine and patient empowerment. It do...

One of the traditional goals of internist geriatricians and of family physicians providing care for elderly patients has been to review and reduce the amount of medication patients are taking. This can be one of the great pleasures of geriatric medicine, with obvious and proven benefits for older patients. Polypharmacy can be defined as the concomitant use of many medications. The more medicati...