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Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Hospice News

This article is based on a Q&A session with Jason Banks, Senior Director of Post Acute Sales at nVoq, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Hospice News: Jason has an incredible background in post-acute care that we’re going to talk about today. Banks: I ran a hospice and palliative care.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz. So Liz, let’s jump into the topic.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. That was from our what?

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

Jerry: Well, I started in 2015 doing the Jewish body washing after the death. And I’ve always looked to try to help people spiritually to better themselves through spirituality, and who more needs help than in the end of life care. And they’re my family and the patients here and the doctors and the nurses.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t ask anybody.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care. She’s a medical anthropologist with an interest in culture of end of life care, among other things, and she has a book that is out called Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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