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Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Hospice News

We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?” I think we’re coming a long way. I looked for a palliative care program that served pediatrics in my area.

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

GeriPal

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). Jerry: Well, I started in 2015 doing the Jewish body washing after the death. This week we turn our attention to the inmates. And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. And it became a terror for me. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz.

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

GeriPal

Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. And so I decided to look at medical aid in dying. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Mara.

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