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. Alex: Oh no.

Geriatrics 237

Geriatrics Palliative care Palliate Blog 237

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: .

Palliative care 249

Palliative care Palliate Article Geriatrics 249

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.

Medicare 225

Medicare Caregiver 2024 Social worker 225

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. 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. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today.

Hospice 213

Hospice Article Hospice care Medicare 213

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. Alex: But I’m talking about-. Joel: Talk about it.

Geriatrics 198

Geriatrics Medicare 2016 Palliative care 198