Jessica Colburn, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200
Baltimore, MD 21224

Bruce Leff, MD
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 7000
Baltimore, MD 21224

Jennifer Hayashi, MD
Medical Director, MedStar House Call Program
5601 Loch Raven Boulevard
Smyth Building, Suite 201
Baltimore, MD 21239

Mattan Schuchman, MD
Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Home-Based Medicine
5200 Eastern Avenue, Suite 2200
Baltimore, MD 21224

Dr. Bruce Leff is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in the department of health policy and management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Leff is an internationally recognized leader and researcher in the development, evaluation and dissemination of novel models of care for older adults, including the Hospital at Home, Guided Care, geriatric service line models and medical house call practices. In addition, his research interests extend to issues related to multi-morbidity, performance measurement and case-mix issues. He has a strong interest in health policy issues, is a Health and Aging Policy Fellow of the American Political Science Association, and has served on multiple technical expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2016, he published Geriatric Home Based Medical Care with Springer Science+Business Media, which remains the only authoritative texts on the subject.

Follows a consistent format for practical use

Each chapter focuses on medication management and clinical pearls and pitfalls for the non-geriatrician and geriatrician alike

Written by interdisciplinary experts in geriatric home-based care

1. Involuntary weight loss

Bruce Leff, MD

2. Assessing Decision-Making Capacity

Sharon Levine, MD, Megan Young, MD

3. Acute illness at home

Abigail Holley Houts, MD

4. Dementia Behavior Management

Erin Zahradnik, MD, Katherine Wang, MD, Shahla Baharlou, MD, & Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH

5. Bacteriuria in a Patient with Incident Delirium

Thomas E. Finucane, MD

6. Caregiver Burden

Mia Yang, MD & Rachel Zimmer, DNP

7. Elder Abuse and neglect

Ania Wajnberg, MD, Sarah Koppel, MD, Fay Kahan LCSW

8. Management of Frequent Falls

Mattan Schuchman, MD, Joe Graziano

9. Home Assessments: Improving Patients' Capacity for Self-Management

Monika Robinson, OT, Sarah Szanton, PhD, ANP

10. Transitioning to long-term care

Namirah Jamshed, MD

11. Pressure Injuries

Yasmin Meah, MD, & Fred Ko, MD, Elizabeth Arrabito, MD

12. Opioid management

Elizabeth McCormick, MD, Meng Zhang, MD

13. Social isolation

Thomas K.M. Cudjoe, MD, Jessica Colburn, MD

14. Serious mental illness

Sonica Bhatia, MD, Victoria Kopke, MD

15. Functional Rehabilitation and Realistic Goals

Jennifer L. Hayashi, MD, Cindy Seidenman, PT

16. Polypharmacy

17. Telephone medicine

Christian Escobar, MD, Cameron Hernandez, MD

18. Morbid obesity

Jean Yudin, MD, Bruce Kinosian, MD

19. Urinary Catheter Management at Home

Rachel Kaplan, RN, Karen Abrashkin MD, Konstantinos E. Deligiannidis, MD, MPH

20. End of life care

Ina Li, MD, Linsey O'Donnell, MD