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  Geriatrics Research Focuses on Evidence-based Care Models

  Mass General's geriatrics and dementia research identifies care gaps and the need for effective models and tools for the treatment of chronically ill seniors.

  Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Neurodegenerative Disease

  Article February 19, 2020

• Medical Grand Rounds: Impact of COVID-19 among Older Persons

  On May 28, 2020, the 12th lecture in the Medical Grand Rounds’ COVID-19 series featured a panel of experts who discussed the impact of COVID-19 on older populations.

  COVID-19, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Research and Innovation

  Article May 29, 2020

• Medical Grand Rounds: Palliative Care in a Pandemic

  On April 2, 2020, the Department of Medicine held its fourth virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19. Vicki Jackson, MD, at Massachusetts General Hospital, along with other members of the Greater Boston medical community, presented on the growing role of palliative care in the response to the pandemic.

  COVID-19, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Research and Innovation

  Article April 3, 2020

• Inability to Self-Monitor Memory May Be Preclinical Sign of Alzheimer's Disease

  In cognitively intact older adults, impaired metamemory—the ability to monitor one's memory accurately and engage in compensatory strategies when necessary—was linked to greater deposition of tau in brain regions that are vulnerable to pathologic changes in early Alzheimer's disease.

  Alzheimers Disease, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neurology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry

  Journal April 1, 2020

• Editorial: Document Patients' Wishes About Surgery at the End of Life

  Adding a do-not-operate section to advanced planning forms would improve documentation of patients' wishes about invasive interventions at the end of life.

  Geriatrics and Palliative Care

  Journal March 25, 2020

• Discussions About Palliative Care Are Influenced by Type of Illness

  Natural language processing of documentation about code status clarification and goals-of-care discussions showed that these types of communication are influenced by the type of illness.

  Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Trauma

  Journal March 17, 2020

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