by Dr Liz | Sep 24, 2013 | Caregivers, Health
Recently, as I was doing house calls in the San Francisco Bay Area, I visited a patient whose dentures were caked with plaque. Those dentures spoke volumes. Often, a patient with dementia will not let caregivers near their mouth. After a hospitalization of several...
by Dr Liz | Sep 16, 2013 | Dementia, ElderConsult Core Principles
I was recently corresponding with David Tate, a San Francisco Attorney who specializes in estates, trusts and elder/disability litigation. He told me that he’s seeing more cases of conservators having to justify the need for dementia care, and also the kind of...
by Dr Liz | Sep 9, 2013 | Caregivers
One of the most common problems I encounter doing my rounds of geriatric house calls is that elders’ bowels do not always move regularly. This may not sound very serious, but it is. Constipation may lead to an impacted bowel, a condition in which everything is so...
by Dr Liz | Sep 4, 2013 | Medication/Pain
Recently, I corresponded with a woman who told me this story: “My husband was given Paxil and Nexium for stomach and stress problems about 15 years ago. The Paxil affected his libido and he said it also make him “feel stupid,” like his brain was fuzzy. Then, several...
by Dr Liz | Aug 26, 2013 | Medication/Pain
Doctors are people too. And like all people, doctors find themselves attracted to the newest and shiniest things. This goes for medicines, too. We doctors like to use the latest drugs. However, in my geriatric house calls practice, I’ve found that the newest meds...
