Wealth and Capacity; Who Gets to Decide?

May 23, 2016 | Legal Issues/Financial Abuse

Earlier this week, Dr. Nancy Hoffman, neuropsychologist and I (Geriatrician in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area) presented a talk about undue influence and how to address financial elder abuse. Today, I read that Sumner Redstone, 92, is ousting long time...

I Know You Love Me, Now Let Me Die

Feb 5, 2016 | Caregivers

Dr. Louis M. Profeta, and emergency physician practicing in Indianapolis has written a compelling article “I Know You Love Me- Now Let Me Die”   This is a great blog post about end of life.  I totally agree that we have “medicalized” end of life—it gets death out of...

The Cost of Being an Elder

Dec 11, 2015 | Caregivers

In a time when American pharmaceutical companies are buying the rights to old medications such as morphine, colchicine (for gout- renamed Colcrys and charging $7 for a pill instead of 50 cents), or doxycycline and charging much higher prices, or developing peanut...

The Power of Music

Nov 21, 2015 | Caregivers

Many of you have heard of the iPod Music & Memory Project through the documentary Alive Inside about the amazing ways beloved music can positively affect folks with dementia. Music is proving to be extremely helpful in other areas of medicine as well. Can music...

Beware Medicare Fraud!

Nov 12, 2015 | Legal Issues/Financial Abuse

Thank you to Bruce Ackermann of Ackermann Money Management for the following financial alert: The 2015 Medicare open enrollment period runs from October 15 to December 7. It’s the time when Medicare recipients can comparison shop and make changes to their plans. It’s...