This spring, Senator Joe Biden and President Donald Trump were lambasted for appearing to nod off in public. Both men are in their 70s—an age when many people struggle to get sufficient high-quality sleep to remain alert during the day.
In the realm of medical specialties, critical care is a relatively young field. For most of its existence it has striven to stabilize patients enduring major insults from trauma or disease.
Terri Fried, MD, professor of medicine (geriatrics), who has been treating older patients in New Haven for more than 20 years, poses a case that’s not so hypothetical. A patient presents with dementia and is prescribed a drug that increases the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the..
Every year in the United States, more than one million people undergo total joint replacement surgeries. That number only increases as the older adult population grows and as the age at which people have these procedures drops.
When patients are unable to speak for themselves and don’t have a friend or family member to do so, a court-appointed stranger can take up the task. These so-called professional guardians or conservators are often allowed to make a broad range of decisions involving not only medical treatment,..
Caroline Mayer, 97, lives with her husband Edward in an independent living community on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The couple has been isolated because of COVID-19, and Caroline looks forward to returning to her normal routines, which include playing canasta with friends and practicing tai chi.
Many medical training programs in China evolved from a Yale-China collaboration that instituted a residency program at Xiangya School of Medicine.
Two groups of new YSM students—the MD and the PA classes that entered in August 2020—started their medical studies by observing social distancing procedures for the traditional white coat ceremonies. The 100 MD candidates sat outside under a broad white tent six feet apart outside Harkness..
When Mary Tinetti, MD, received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2009, she had already put years of hard work into describing the medical significance of falls among older patients. The Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Public Health, and the section chief of..
As advances in biostatistics help improve the reach and transparency of clinical investigations, Yale’s Center for Analytical Sciences takes the lead.
In March, when COVID-19 first gripped the country, Fereshteh Ganjavi saw a crisis brewing. As the health care coordinator at Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), she was besieged with calls from clients worried about the coronavirus pandemic.
The fires of World War I and the revolutions it sparked were still burning across Europe when a group of leaders at Yale School of Medicine gathered one December day in 1920. Just two months after Soviet forces were turned back from Warsaw, the School of Medicine’s faculty, including Dean Milton..
Two weeks after finishing veterinary school in her native South Africa, Caroline Zeiss, PhD, a diplomate of two prestigious professional societies in veterinary and animal medicine, arrived in the United States with one suitcase. Thirty years later, she is a professor of comparative medicine and..
When Abigail Greene and Daniel Barson were children growing up just north of New York City, they had no idea how intertwined their lives would become. Given their shared interests, their related futures are not surprising.
In compiling this issue—talking through different story ideas, discussing the theme, and reading through the submissions—I was struck both by how far care for the elderly has come in my lifetime, and how far there is to go. Growing up in Branford’s Short Beach community in the 1980s, I’d often..
In 2018, a year after completing his term as U. S.
YSM researchers and clinicians worked hard to diagnose and treat patients with COVID-19, many of whom were older adults. What were some of the school’s successes? One of our earliest success stories was the use of standardized clinical protocols.