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‘Elegant, Expert Care’: The Emergence of Neuropalliative Services

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Daly was a part of the second-ever class to sit the palliative care certification exam in 2010. Cruetzfeldt added that it makes sense for a neurology practice to have embedded social workers and other palliative care specialists to ensure the best care for their patients.

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Primary Care Clinicians Provide Palliative Care Without Realizing It

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This fact leads many to conflate palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care. Add this to the regular visits of home aides, volunteers, social workers, the chaplain, and more, and it’s easy to see how hospice can fill needs that have become more intensive. 2010 Dec 31;40(6):899-911.

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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. We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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And it’s why until Areej was a pioneer in this area, people really weren’t figuring out how to integrate palliative and supportive care services for patients with heme malignancies. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. I entered this field wanting to actually optimize end of life care for patients with blood cancers.