At Mount Sinai’s Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for older adults, persons with serious illness, and their loved ones. Our groundbreaking work has gained national recognition. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in Geriatrics in the nation for the fourth year in a row by U.S. News & World Report® for 2023-24, and we are nationally recognized as pioneers in palliative care. Under the leadership of R. Sean Morrison, MD, the Brookdale Department’s Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chair, our expert specialists provide clinical services and programs that encourage healthy aging, treat patients with serious illnesses, and provide support and education for family members and caregivers.
In addition to traditional medical treatments, we offer holistic and integrative health therapies to help strengthen patients' minds and bodies. We are also building sustainable models for practice, business, education, and research that can be used around the world to care for our aging population.
We understand that managing multiple conditions can often be complex. Our team of physicians, nurses, and social workers collaborates with other medical specialists to develop a comprehensive treatment plan and maintain the physical and emotional well-being of both patients and their loved ones in the setting that is most appropriate to their needs. We care for patients in the hospital, in the community, and in their homes.
At Mount Sinai’s Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for older adults, persons with serious illness, and their loved ones. Our groundbreaking work has gained national recognition. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in Geriatrics in the nation for the fourth year in a row by U.S. News & World Report® for 2023-24, and we are nationally recognized as pioneers in palliative care. Under the leadership of R. Sean Morrison, MD, the Brookdale Department’s Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chair, our expert specialists provide clinical services and programs that encourage healthy aging, treat patients with serious illnesses, and provide support and education for family members and caregivers.
In addition to traditional medical treatments, we offer holistic and integrative health therapies to help strengthen patients' minds and bodies. We are also building sustainable models for practice, business, education, and research that can be used around the world to care for our aging population.
We understand that managing multiple conditions can often be complex. Our team of physicians, nurses, and social workers collaborates with other medical specialists to develop a comprehensive treatment plan and maintain the physical and emotional well-being of both patients and their loved ones in the setting that is most appropriate to their needs. We care for patients in the hospital, in the community, and in their homes.
As the number of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias rises, the impacts of this trend on this population and on caregivers remain understudied.
In this Q&A, she discusses her lifelong commitment to advancing innovative medical education and scholarship, along with her unique perspective on the importance of integrating geriatrics training into the medical curriculum.
Robert Butler, MD, having previously founded and chaired the National Institute on Aging, quickly established a highly successful culture of research, and that culture continues to flourish.
The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine created Palliative Care at Home to leverage its expertise and leadership in palliative care.
The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine has fostered diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the Department and Mount Sinai for many years.
Our Aging, Life Innovations, Goals, and Needs (ALIGN) Program targets the top five percent of patients who are responsible for more than 50 percent of health care costs in the United States.
Dedicated to training top clinicians and leaders in the field, the goal of the Brookdale Department is to create a new generation of physicians, educators, researchers, policymakers, advocates, and innovators to address the critical workforce ...
Mount Sinai was the first hospital to integrate geriatrics and palliative care into one department in 2009, to become the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
A new study links a gene called inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase D (INPP5D) which is concentrated in the brain’s cleanup cells known as microglia, to the inflammation that has increasingly emerged as a key mechanism contributing to Alzheimer’s disease.
With a new book coming out in the fall of 2022, Honest Aging: An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life, Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD, is looking ahead to envisioning and implementing new solutions for today’s older adults.
Telemedicine use among adults in the United States has seen widespread adoption since the beginning of the pandemic, providing a safe alternative for patient visits while ensuring continuity of care.
Research at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine has reached a new threshold with its key components—funding, infrastructure, data sets, and experienced investigators—firmly in place.
The current reliance on family caregivers is unsustainable when weighed against the anticipated doubling in the number of cognitively impaired older adults in the United States by 2060.
Dementia is widely recognized as the most common infirmity among residents in nursing homes. What barely registers on the radar screen of physicians, though, is the most effective treatment and management of these typically frail patients ...
For Helen M. Fernandez, MD, named Vice Chair of Education in June 2021, the goal goes beyond simply training outstanding clinicians in the field—it’s about transforming medical education.
The core mission of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine—to create model programs that improve the care of adults with serious illnesses not only locally but across the country—has taken another impressive step.
The values of equity and inclusivity have always been part of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. But clinicians and staff are constantly challenging themselves ...
As the care for older adults evolves to innovative new modes of treatment, an initiative in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai stands out as a model for the field.
Since its inception 40 years ago, the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine has transformed the care of older adults, persons with serious illness, and their caregivers in the United States.
COVID-19 has taken a horrific toll on the United States and vaccines sit on the horizon for many citizens. The devastating impact of this disease has underscored the urgent need for high-quality geriatrics and palliative care in this country. ...
