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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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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. So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.”

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Recently, Oreofe Odejide, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues published an analysis of hospice utilization among patients who died with lymphoma, and they made recommendations for improving patient care. Patients in hospice have fewer rehospitalizations, fewer intensive care unit admissions, and lower costs.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Sure.

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

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So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. And people are getting life sentences. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population.

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