Geriatric Medicine - Winter 2005

Volume 56, Number 5
Winter 2005
 

About the Cover -- Retired Cardiologist has a heart for photography Gordon Ira, MD, a cardiologist who retired after 35 years of practice in Jacksonville, is the photographer who took this issue’s cover photograph. Retiring from medicine allowed Dr. Ira to start doing full-time what he had been doing part-time all his life, taking photographs. Dr. Ira began a photography business and now sells his photographs on his website, www.gordonira.com. This issue’s cover shot, “Snow on Red Berries” (taken in the Glacier National Forest) symbolized to the journal’s editorial staff the advancing of age (the snow) even as the vibrancy of life (the red berries) is still making a person productive in society.  To read more about Dr. Ira, click here.

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• From the Editor's Desk: Professionalism Revisited

• From the President's Desk: Last Letter and Update

• From the Executive Vice President: Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage: Navigating the Storm

• Special Report: Avian Influenza: Is a Pandemic on Our Doorstep
  John Montgomery, MD, MPH, Vice Chair, DCMS Bioterrorism Committee

• Guest Editor's Note: Turning the Tide for the Elderly
  Kay M. Mitchell, MD, Guest Editor

• Gaining Insights into Alzheimer's Disease
  John G.F. Boughey, MBChB, MRCP (Ireland) and Neill R. Graff-Radford, MBBCh, FRCP (London)

• Update on Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly
  Kay M. Mitchell, MS, MD, FACP

• End of Life and Terminal Symptom Management
  Sherry King, MD, MBA and Timothy Sternberg, DMD, MD

• The Many Colors of Elder Abuse
  Marjorie C. Allen, BSN, JD and Kay M. Mitchell, MS, MD, FACP

• Fond Recollections and Seasoned Advice from 2 retired physicians

• 412(i): A Savings Plan that Makes Up for Lost Time