Optimistic Aging for Baby Boomers

We were poised for an enjoyable evening of light, live theatre. Prior to the show a couple emerged from the aisle and into a spotlight. They were young actors, costumed to look old and clownish. They proceeded to do a short skit intended to encourage ...

Dr. McCloud talks with a Mini-Med studentDr. MichaelMcCloud is a member of a very exclusive club, a club he wishes was much larger andmore diverse. He is one of a small number of board certified geriatricians inNorthern California, a medical ...

He certainly looks trustworthy, but how about the 'breakthrough' technology he's hawking?Mondays are “MedDays” in our daily paper. Large advertisements devoted to fast, relativelyaffordable, noninvasive testing of body parts - from heart to whole b...

Dr. Calvin Hirsch, a dignified physician of a certain age,started his Mini-Medical School  lectureby dropping to the floor and pumping out a dozen push ups. Appropriately, Dr.Hirsch, professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at UCD medical Health Ce...

Dr. Michael McCloud chats with students before launching Week 4 of Mini Med SchoolThere is no wonder that UC Davis School of Medicine has aworld class reputation. Last weekend’s presentations at the 2012 Mini-Medical School clearly demonstrated the u...

Eager Mini-Med students ready for Saturday classI regret to report that I am not qualified to summarize therecent Mini-Med School  session on the skin. To do that, I’d need at least sixyears of medical school (rather than my current 18 weeks) an...

Hospital to Home - A Winding RoadDr. Michael McCloud opens the classWeek 2 of UCD’s Mini-Medical School focused on a topic that mostof us would rather ignore until necessity bares its teeth and makes us payattention. Deborah Bakerjian,PhD, RN conc...

Secrets of Health Aging Revealed Mini-Med School for Mere Mortals Starts 2012 SessionsI’m back in medical school for the third time - Mini Medical School that is. Right there in the front row taking notes on my iPad as preeminent teaching physic...

In previous posts I talked about the thrill of receiving an elegantly hand written letter from my cousin Bill Tarbuck in the West Midlands of England. It’s historically a working class region – and in many ways remains so. Bill (a hearty 80-somethi...

I recently had the privilege of being the warm-up speaker for the esteemed geriatrician Dr. Michael McCloud at the Eskaton Foundation’s annual breakfast.  It was a great opportunity to talk about some of the positive realities of entering the Ba...