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

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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. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Palliative Care in A Conflict Zone: Help Us Support Our Hospice and Palliative Care Colleagues in Ukraine

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The All-Ukrainian Associate of Palliative and Hospice Care was founded in 2011 and is currently working to provide support and direct supplies to hospices and palliative care wards in the country. Families are unable to visit their loved ones and patients suffer from limited access to care and medications.

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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Because that really is what this is about. Schilling, L.,

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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2011; 29 (6): 755-760. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. J Palliat MEd. Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. References: Peppercorn J. Smith T, Helft P, et al. J Clin Oncol. J Clin Oncol.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Heather. So Alex and I had to find another one, and Brandi and her ballads are very near and dear to me because you can imagine that’s related to narrative and telling of people’s stories. Why is this a research focus of you?