by Dr Liz | Jun 5, 2015 | Legal Issues/Financial Abuse
There is far too little financial help out there. If you Google “financial help” and “cancer,” you will bring up links to hundreds and hundreds of charities, both national and local that will help cancer patients in need. Of course, I don’t begrudge cancer patients...
by Dr Liz | Mar 14, 2015 | Caregivers
Even if you walk slowly, even if you walk uncertainly, even if your joints are a little sore, even if you’re a little afraid of falling, even if walking makes you tired, just walk! As I do geriatric house calls around the San Francisco Bay Area, I find myself harping...
by Dr Liz | Feb 24, 2015 | Caregivers
Recently, I had a patient who kept having terrible bouts of diarrhea. His symptoms were terrible, as terrible as any experienced by a cholera patient. Imagine the worst bout of bowel trouble you’ve ever seen. My patient went to the emergency room, and then he went...
by Dr Liz | Feb 17, 2015 | Caregivers
I was recently caring for an elderly gentleman who was getting weaker and walking less and less. He lives in a skilled nursing facility. Whenever one of my patients begins to move less, I begin to worry more. Once the elderly begin to really slow down, it’s difficult...
by Dr Liz | Feb 4, 2015 | Dementia, ElderConsult Core Principles
As I was clicking around the Internet recently, I came across a letter from the British Secretary of State for Health, calling upon local authorities to promote greater awareness of dementia, to try to diagnose dementia early and to encourage both patients and their...
