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. I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

2 Researchers analyzed Medicare records for 18,777 patients who died with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), aggressive NHL, or mantle cell lymphoma. Compared to all Medicare beneficiaries who died with cancer, patients with lymphoma proved 23% less likely to receive hospice, and they tended to have fewer days in hospice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Michele: Yeah, absolutely.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. Carla: Thanks so much.

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