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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

Additionally, among beneficiaries who died between 2006 and 2011, one in eight toggled between a hospital and an SNF during their final year of life, the study found. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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This way, patients will have received the information needed for them to be informed participants in clinical decision-making even when the prognosis is uncertain. 2011; 29 (6): 755-760. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. References: Peppercorn J. Smith T, Helft P, et al. J Clin Oncol. Odejide O, Cronin A, Earle C, et al.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

You write a scholarly article in geriatrics, it’s not dissimilar. I love his just because this is a palliative care audience in the article that then turned into being mortal, New Yorker, I don’t know, circa 2011 or something. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health. ” Or something. That helps.

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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. The Care Plan helps people navigate healthcare systems not set up for LGBTQ+ or racially diverse caregivers. This includes the 2.4

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. And I was an internal medicine resident.

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