Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Palliative care in general can reduce health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs. Countering this however, is the need for greater education for all stakeholders on the nature of these services and how they are distinct from hospice. But they do represent a glimmer of hope.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. And so, for-profit hospices, for-profit methadone clinics pop up everywhere, and their care is pretty variable. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Additional links: GeriPal podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Nathan Brummel on geriatricizing the ICU. It was amazing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. They’re all Medicare beneficiaries. And it was the right thing to do.

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