Living in the Moment
A Guide to Overcoming Challenges and Finding Moments of Joy in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias

About Elizabeth Landsverk, MD

Elizabeth Landsverk, MD, is the founder of ElderConsult Geriatric Medicine, a practice specializing in house calls and in-person meetings with elders with dementia and their families. As a geriatrician, Dr. Landsverk collaborates with physicians throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to address challenging medical and behavioral issues facing older patients and their families. Utilizing a variety of techniques, she helps to alleviate pain, agitation, and discomfort for elders, improving their quality of life.

Dr. Landsverk is board-certified in internal medicine, geriatric medicine, and palliative care medicine. In addition to her work with patients, Dr. Landsverk is an adjunct clinical professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and serves as medical director for two dementia communities in Belmont and Redwood City, California. Her advice on elder care has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Tampa Bay Times, Today's Geriatric Medicine, The Street, and Grandparents.com, among others. She also recently launched an online community on her website to help address the challenging elder care issues families face nationwide. Previously, Dr. Landsverk taught at University of California San Francisco, one of the top ten medical research centers nationwide, and served as a hospice care director 7 and as a consultant for the San Francisco Abuse Forensics Center. Dr. Landsverk is a graduate of Stanford University, studied geriatrics in a fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, one of the world's leading centers for research on treating people as they age, and trained at Cambridge Hospital, Harvard University. She lives in Burlingame, California, with her family.