
Pages Home About Videos Links Tweets Monday , August 8, 2011 The Ir Relevance of Medical Research to Older Patients Research studies often are conducted as if older patient's don't exist . Even when the disease being studied predominantly effects older persons , the study includes patients that bear little resemblence to the typical older patient . This makes providing the best care for older patients difficult because we have little evidence to inform best care practices . We have discussed several specific examples of this problem on GeriPal see here here and here An important study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine shows these examples are not isolated incidents . Rather , the failure to make clinical research relevant to most older patients is a deeply embedded , pervasive ,