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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

Additionally, among beneficiaries who died between 2006 and 2011, one in eight toggled between a hospital and an SNF during their final year of life, the study found. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2006; 14 (3): 264-269. J Clin Oncol. 2010; (29): 4457-4464. Kris A, Cherlin E, Prigerson H, et al. Length of hospice enrollment and subsequent depression in family caregivers: 13-month follow-up study. Teno J, Clarridge B, Casey V, et al. Family perspectives on end-of-life care at the last place of care.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review.

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Advocating for Critical Care Transport Nurses

Minority Nurse

Ground transport nurses began taking the Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN) certification when it was introduced in 2006. This July will mark the 30th anniversary of the Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN). Today, there are more than 5,500 CFRNs and more than 450 CTRNs in the United States.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive.

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