Dr. Margaret A. Drickamer M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
874 Howard Ave New Haven CT, 06519About
Dr. Margaret Drickamer practices Geriatric Medicine in New Haven, CT. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Drickamer works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Older persons' preferences for site of terminal care.
- Commentary: honesty is the best policy.
- Older persons' perceptions of home and hospital as sites of treatment for acute illness.
- Older person's preferences for home vs hospital care in the treatment of acute illness.
- Should patients with Alzheimer's disease be told their diagnosis?
- Potentially modifiable resident characteristics that are associated with physical or verbal aggression among nursing home residents with dementia.
- Perceived needs for geriatric education by medical students, internal medicine residents and faculty.
- Gynecologic care of elderly women.
- Approaches to suffering at the end of life: the use of sedation in the USA and Netherlands.
- Discussing physician-assisted dying: physicians' experiences in the United States and the Netherlands.
- Definition and recommendations for advance care planning: an international consensus supported by the European Association for Palliative Care.
- A geriatrician's guide to enteral feeding.
- Psychomotor mobility and the elderly driver.
- Practical issues in physician-assisted suicide.
- Older persons' preferences for site of treatment in acute illness.
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