Critical Conversations in Advanced Care Planning In the years that Martha Abshire Saylor worked as a critical care nurse, she saw firsthand what can unfold when patients without advance care plans undergo procedures they may never have wanted. “The lack of a documented advance care plan can result in painful and life-extending medical interventions that […]
Timely Funding for Promising Scholars In her scientific quest to improve treatments for people living with HIV, Johns Hopkins’ Eileen Scully has long held a strong commitment to both research and patient care. The holder of an M.D./Ph.D. from Yale, who trained at MIT and Harvard, Scully has since 2016 split her time between caring […]
A New Hub for Healthy Aging Takes Off In a large lab space known as the “motion capture room,” a Johns Hopkins Ph.D. engineering student is quite literally putting an older woman through her paces. Sixteen cameras are set up in pairs throughout the room, tracking the woman’s gait in real time as she walks […]
Transforming the Patient Experience The affirming words on the wall are painted in bright colors and embellished with rainbows, sunbursts and stars: “Believe in Yourself!” “Smart, Strong, Fearless!” and “Anything is Possible.” Amid the inspiring exhortations hang two large bulletin boards, filled with polaroid snapshots of smiling young Johns Hopkins patients. All have scoliosis, or […]
Restoring Luster to the Golden Years As adults progress into old age, many become physically frail, characterized by a slower gait, lack of appetite and low levels of physical energy. Often, they also begin experiencing cognitive decline: Words become trickier to find, or following the plot of a complicated novel proves futile. “I’m not as […]
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