Salt Lake Tribune · Jan 7, 2020
Older people need geriatricians. Where will they come from?
(Brittainy Newman | The New York Times) Linda Poskanzer, at her Hackensack, N.J. home on Dec. 23, 2019, was struggling with her physical and mental health when one of her daughters made her an appointment with a geriatrician, a physician who specializes in older adults.“I was not doing well emotionally,” she recalled. “Physically, I didn’t have any stamina. I was sleeping a lot. I wasn’t getting to work.”
A therapist in Hackensack, New Jersey, Poskanzer was severely overweight and grew short of breath after walking even short distances. Her house had become disorganized, buried in unsorted paperwork. The antidepressant she was taking didn’t seem to help.