Hospice News
AUGUST 9, 2023
Prison populations across the United States saw a 280% rise in incarcerated seniors in this age group from 1999 to 2016, the research found. The population that is over 55 — considered geriatric inside prisons because people’s life spans are much shorter there — is nearly one-third of the prison population,” Gorlock told local news.
Hospice News
MARCH 22, 2024
Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Crouch brings more than 30 years of health care leadership experience to the role. Fluent in English, French and Arabic, Abdo has led the Louisiana State University’s geriatric medicine fellowship program since 2016.
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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.”
1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 21, 2023
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GeriPal
JULY 28, 2022
Areej: I think it was 2016. Eric: 2016. And I think the most, I mean we can argue like why was this paper so important, I think this was the very first palliative care trial in people undergoing curative therapy. I entered this field wanting to actually optimize end of life care for patients with blood cancers.
GeriPal
JANUARY 5, 2023
Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. 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.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
In this PONDER-ICU trial, we didn’t rely on palliative care specialists; we engaged bedside clinicians to have ICU communication and adhere to guidelines. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? It was the first randomized palliative care trial in hematology, is the way that I think of it.
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