Doctors

For those who have experienced this, you may remember cringing: A well-meaning nurse or physician called you “dear,” or asked you in an excessively sweet voice to “take this pill” or take a deep breath. This is considered “Elderspeak” and it reeks of ageism when it’s used in the health-care…

Chances are, you know you really should go. At agebuzz, we’ve given you a gentle nudge to get back into a preventive health care mode, and likely, you’ve already returned to your physician if something urgent is going on. Experts have put together lists of recommended screenings and tests that…

Most of us likely grew up with aspirin as a regularly used medication in our households. Whether the good old-fashioned Bayer brand or one of the other commercially available aspirin-based brands like “Bufferin” or “Anacin,” most of us can remember our parents taking or recommending a tablet for headache or…

As we’ve documented in numerous previous posts on agebuzz, accurately diagnosing dementia, especially in its early stages, is never easy. There are limitations in the technology and stigma attached to the diagnosis as well as reluctance among physicians to diagnose a patient when there are no real effective therapeutic interventions…

Anyone who’s ever tried to get their medical record from a particular care provider, much less organize the totality of their record from a range of providers, knows that it can be a herculean task to get it all together. While agebuzz readers know from the Powerhouse Patient series by…

In an important recent article in The New York Times, writer Paula Span raised a valuable topic that many find taboo to discuss: that is, seeking out mental health therapy as an older adult. Lord knows the past many months have led many of us to the brink of despair:…