Pulse

Briefs

Sex and the senior, high-fashion hearing aids, and workouts for the aging brain.

Starving with Age

Older women are now seeking treatment for bulimia, anorexia, and other eating disorders.

Fatal Missteps

More older Minnesotans are dying from falls, but physicians and other experts have sure-footed advice on how to reverse that trend.

Geriatric Gamers

Trips to the casino can become more than a day out for seniors—they can become a health issue.

Book Reviews

Frank Talk about Menopause

Review by June LaValleur, M.D.

Like its forebearer, Our Bodies Ourselves: Menopause offers women multiple perspectives on sex and health, mostly based on accurate science.

Artful Aging

Review by Charles R. Meyer, M.D.

Aging well is a skill developed through
training and practice.

End Notes

Levels of Care

Poem by Marilyn Aschoff Mellor, M.D.

 

October 2007 | Table of Contents

Cover Story

Coming of Age

By Kim Kiser

With the number of geriatricians shrinking and few in training, who’s going to care for us in our old age?

Face to Face

The Memory Keepers

By Jeanne Mettner

At long last, the paths of Alzheimer’s disease researchers Ronald Petersen and Karen Hsiao Ashe have converged. And the result of their collaboration could be mind-altering.

Perspective 

Candles, Dishwashers, and Alzheimer’s Disease

By Richard Heinrich, M.D.

Dementia steadily erodes a women’s daily routine, stripping her of her personhood.

Quality Rounds

Physician Autonomy in the Age of Accountability

By Scott D. Smith

Doctors are rethinking what professional autonomy means as they increasingly are urged to follow evidenced-based guidelines and protocols.

Clinical and Health Affairs

Genes, Aging, and Prospects for Extended Life Span

By James W. Curtsinger, Ph.D.

 

Sleep Complaints in the Geriatric Patient

By Mark W. Mahowald, M.D., and Michel A. Cramer Bornemann, M.D.

 

Age-Related Hearing Loss

By Tina Huang, M.D.

 

Editor's Note

The New 80

 

MMA News

MMA Honors Physicians, Medical Students, and Others
2007 House Sets Policy 
MMA Chooses New Officers 
Brainerd Surgeon Inaugurated President

 


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