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A change in perspective...
I’ve spent years in clinic putting patients on medications to lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and improve blood sugars in hopes of extending their life. I’ve pushed for dozens of colonoscopies, mammograms, and stress tests in hopes to prevent disasters.
Now, I’m in Geriatrics Clinic taking people off medications and forgoing screening because, well, it’ll probably be something else that kills them first.
I’ve spent the other part of my three years on the General Medicine inpatient teams and ICUs trying to cheat death, halt death, or revive persons from near death.
Now I’m in a Geriatrics Clinic and it feels like I’m actively planning for someone to die.
…But…
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Steps and Missteps
Expectations often differ for those whom we consider “old.”
A change in perspective...
I’ve spent years in clinic putting patients on medications to lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and improve blood sugars in hopes of extending their life. I’ve pushed for dozens of colonoscopies, mammograms, and stress tests in hopes to prevent disasters. Now, I’m in Geriatrics Clinic taking people off medications and forgoing screening because, well, it’ll probably be something else that kills them first.
ChangingAging
ChangingAging is a multi-blog platform challenging conventional views on aging. We believe aging is a strength, rich in developmental potential and growth. We welcome anyone who is interested in changing aging, whether you're an elder, youngster or just trying to figure out what comes after adulthood.
Fight Aging
Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction. But over the long haul all that really matters is medical biotechnology: progress towards repair and reversal of the known root causes of aging. The sooner these treatments arrive, the more lives will be saved.
GeriPal
GeriPal is a forum for discourse, recent news and research, and freethinking commentary. Our objectives are: 1) to create an online community of interdisciplinary providers interested in geriatrics or palliative care; 2) to provide an open forum for the exchange of ideas and disruptive commentary that changes clinical practice and health care policy; and 3) to change the world.
Senior Planet
Senior Planet celebrates aging by sharing information and resources that support aging with attitude, with a particular focus on technology’s role in helping adults 60 and up connect, stay healthy and enjoy life.
The Geriatrician
I hope this blog takes on the flavor of having a geritarician in your own family. I hope to take my experience as a solo practitioner and my academic training as a family physician and geriatrician and make it accessible to virtually anyone.
AARP Gerontology Blog
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps people 50 and older improve the quality of their lives.
Inside NIA - A Blog for Researchers
This blog is intended for grantees of the National Institute on Aging at the NIH, as well as applicants for funding, those with an application in mind, application reviewers, and students pursuing careers in research on aging and Alzheimer’s disease. The blog provides the latest information on NIA funding opportunities, research priorities and news, training, and policy.
Methuselah Foundation
Regenerative medicine is the future of health care, promising cures for everything from heart disease to diabetes, dramatically reducing costs, and extending healthy life. This blog discusses the latest in longevity research, and provides tips that will help you enjoy a longer life.
Pallimed
Pallimed was founded as a way to keep track of interesting articles from many different journals that were relevant to palliative care. The scope of the blog has expanded to include reviewing media coverage of hospice and palliative care issues. Our primary audience are the interdisciplinary health care professionals in hospice and palliative care, but we are happy to see patients, families, media, other disciplines and specialties come here to find information relevant to them.
RealAge
Get healthy-living tips for everything from knee pain and seasonal allergies to diet and nutrition, weight loss and more.
SeniorsAloud
SeniorsAloud was started in May 2008 with the objective of providing senior citizens with an avenue to network online and share their life experiences.
The 70-Something Blog
Learn about aging and living a full life from Judy, who is chronicling her journey through her decade as a septuagenarian.
Time Goes By
Time Goes By is wide-ranging blog covering social issues, work, retirement, age discrimination and ageism, politics, media, health, family, Medicare and Social Security, love and sex, entertainment, humor, grief and mortality, culture, technology and more — all as related to aging.
Alliance for Aging Research
The Alliance for Aging Research is dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and their application to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health.
Paging for the Aging
A blog about resident experiences in geriatric medicine.
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