6. A 78-year-old woman visited her general practitioner complaining of ongoing left lower
leg pain. She described it as a burning sensation that is worse when anything touches the …

Purpose Family physicians provide the majority of elderly patient care in Canada. Many
experience significant challenges in serving this cohort. This study aimed to examine the …

As an elderly, retired general internist, age 95, retired 2 years ago, it might be worth
reviewing my reactions to the birth, growing up, and establishment of geriatrics as a …

Some days, it is a three. These are the good days: the mornings of slicing apples, stirring
flour with sugar and spice, the scent of pie floating upstairs to wake her grandchildren when …

In 1946 the British physician Marjorie Warren, who is considered the mother of geriatric
medicine, published 'Care of the chronic sick aged'in the Lancet. 1 Warren described the …

Aging is an inevitable part of life. Each of us deals with the changes brought on by life
differently—some embrace them, while others fight them, seeing them as a herald of …

Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the necessary information, within one
short volume, for a sound introduction to the particular characteristics and needs of elderly …

Dr Pearlman's paper [1] raises a number of very interesting and important points. He has set
himself a formidable task: essentially to develop a multi-dimensional functional review of …

To the Editor:-I would like to concur with the conclusion of Dr. Sullivan'that temporal arteritis
can occur with atypical features and may lead to devastating consequences if left untreated …

An assessment of an ill young person should lead to a unifying single diagnosis. While such
an approach can also be true for older people, some sick old people differ in their presenting …