GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Anne: Right. Why are they doing this?
1-800-HOSPICE
JANUARY 18, 2022
More and more people are choosing to die at home. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. In: Huria A, Balducci L, editors: Geriatric Oncology: Treatment, Assessment, and Management. 2008 Nov;98(11):2092-8. Ferrell B, Mazanec P.
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GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
We’ve mentioned buprenorphine, is that kind of the main thing that we should be thinking about in palliative care clinics and geriatric clinics for people with your use disorder? Eric: And that pain protocol significantly reduced behavioral issues in dementia nursing home patients. Zachary: I think it’s important.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. The for-profits stepped up and they have been serving people in nursing homes, including with dementia who deserve our care, and the nonprofits haven’t. I really appreciate it.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Yep, for geriatrics? Samir: Yeah.
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