Unintentional weight loss in older adults: concerns and common causes.

Dr. Gordon's new book "Looking Through the Lens: Reflections on Medicine, Ethics, and Society".

Challenges of 'having the conversation' in healthcare for older population, including CPR and feeding tubes.

For the 6 months that I have not been able to drive because of medical reasons I have become a regular user of Uber.

For those of us who are planners, it seems perfectly natural to anticipate the possibilities of the future...

I have often talked about how important stories are when it comes to medical care.

Physicians usually become adept at choosing medications for the complaints and illnesses that patients bring to their attention.

Physicians usually become adept at choosing medications for the complaints and illnesses that patients bring to their attention.

It is the age of the bionic person…

Ihave heard it many times, “ I am the POA"…

At the time of my medical training, the term medical ethics was hardly used when discussing complex issues related to patients and families.

One of the great things about the history of medicine is how new ideas and approaches to care replace those that were previously the "gold standard" fall by the wayside and are replaced with newer and more effective treatments.

If one is in medical practice long enough it sometimes seems like that sense one gets when sitting in a waiting room and picking up a years old copy of Time® magazine and not realize that it is years out of date, as many of the stories seem to be the same or very familiar.

I have for many years enjoyed my family name, Gordon, and all the connections I can make with it.

In North America, although Canada and the United States are separate countries, and each State and Province have their own areas of jurisdictional responsibility, both countries share the legal formulation that Supreme Court rulings set precedential interpretations of the law.

There are pros and cons of the new digital world.

Most health care professionals involved in eldercare have had the experience that some of those we look after seem to be able to recall past experiences with a degree of intensity that may be very disquieting and may even lead to what gets interpreted as agitated behaviour.

What I found surprising about the National Post article was that one would think after reading it that offering dying patients more choices in their end-of-life care was a novel idea...

Often in a geriatric medicine practice one of the salient complaints by families is how often their loved one tells them the same thing over and over again.

I recently saw the movie, The Iron Lady that looks at the developmental and political life of...

Hearing impairment is a common phenomenon in the older population...