The Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University strives to create a workforce that represents the racial, ethnic, and sex diversity of U.S. society. To that end, the division has developed a summer program for underrepresented minority first-year medical students to expose them to geriatric medicine and research. The ultimate aim of this initiative is to recru...

BACKGROUND Although the number of older patients is increasing in almost all medical specialties, the interest of medical students in geriatrics as a career is still low. Because quality of medical education and educators strongly influences student career decisions, it is important to develop curricula that motivate students to become self-directed, lifelong learners in the field of geriatric ...

The demands of acute medicine compounded by the dramatic effects of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) are widely believed to be detrimental to the quality of specialty training and hence may adversely affect recruitment to the specialty. Most obviously, the majority of SpRs in geriatric medicine (and other specialties involved in emergency medicine) have been forced into partial or com...

Terumasa Hayashi, Hiromi Rakugi, Kunitoshi Iseki, Yoshiharu Tsubakihara and Yoshitaka Isaka , the Committee of Renal Data Registry of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; Committee of Renal Data Registry, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, Tokyo, Japan and Department of Kidney D...

of relevant research to establish best practice, hopefully arising as much from within the NHS as the academic sector, through its reconfigured R&D programme including the new Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN). • The fifth consequence would be the emergence of an evidence base that could properly inform the commissioning process and better define the roles of pr...

1 Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Parkwood Hospital, St. Joseph’s Health Care London, London, Ontario, N6A 5A5, Canada 2 Gait and Brain Laboratory, Lawson Health Research Institute, the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5A5, Canada 3 Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, Robarts Research Institute, Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich Schoo...

T.S. Eliot once proposed that there were two sorts of problems in life. One prompted the question, 'What are we going to do about it?' and the other provoked the questions, 'What does it mean? How does one relate to it?' Geriatric medicine, an eminently practical specialty, has concentrated with good effect on the former but with notable exceptions has yet to devote significant time to the latt...

of the specialist physician in the healthcare of the older person has developed beyond recognition. The range of practice has always been wide; the last decade has, however, seen it reach its greatest diversity. There have also been many challenges within this diversification. Maintaining the historical role of the consultant geriatrician while adapting to the changing world of healthcare provi...

Minimizing toxicity while maximizing efficacy is a common goal in the treatment of any condition but its importance is underscored in the discipline of oncology because of the serious nature of many chemotherapeutic toxicities and the risk of cancer recurrence or disease progression. The challenge of achieving an optimal therapeutic index is especially augmented in the elderly population becaus...

Although adults aged 65 years and older constitute the most rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population, geriatric issues have not typically been a focus of training in infectious diseases (ID). Underrecognition of the unique aspects of geriatric care, apathy toward this population, and the feeling that "we're all geriatricians" (and thus know geriatric medicine) all contribute to this probl...