Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. Our mission is to help them tell it. About us – Dignity in Care. SPONSOR: .

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. And these are a little bit more palliative care centric than things we might use with a general population of hospitalized old adults or people in the nursing home or in the outpatient setting because there’s that feeling of life closure and legacy in some of these questions.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Ryan: I started in 2011. Why did you go into it? How long ago?

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