Whether you're forty or eighty, Dr. Lachs' message is intended to provide an insider's guide to help you navigate the complex and confusing system of modern American healthcare so you can make the best choices for yourself and your loved ones.
Dr. Lachs discusses information about ways to:
- Negotiate care decisions with aging parents
- Budget for late-life health care costs as well as retirement funds
- Manage care transitions between a home and an elder care center
- Make lifestyle improvements in your forties & fifties that can add years to your life
- Outfit your home to ensure that you can stay in it for as long as possible
About Dr. Mark Lachs
Both a practicing physician and highly regarded researcher, Dr. Mark Lachs is Director of Geriatrics for the New York Presbyterian Health System (one of the nation’s largest) and the Irene and Roy Psaty Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. He is also co-chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Medical School, and has responsibility for teaching geriatrics and internal medicine to medical students, residents, fellows and practicing physicians. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the New York University School of Medicine he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Lachs also received a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Yale University while a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
Dr. Lachs’s major area of interest is the disenfranchised elderly, and he has published widely on such topics as of elder abuse and neglect, quality of life in aging, the older cancer patient, ethics, and the financing of health care. He has lectured internationally and is a highly sought after speaker to both medical and lay audiences. His scientific publications have appeared in such prestigious publications as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and he has appeared on The Today Show, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and many other national and local media outlets.
Dr. Lachs’s hobbies include baseball, guitar, restoring antique electronics, and ham radio. He and his wife Susan, a nurse practitioner, have three children and live in Connecticut.
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