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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And what she found most compelling was the work of the peer workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: 40 years later in 2018, they got together at Astana, the then capital of Kazakhstan, and brought out another resolution, which ask member countries to give control over healthcare to the community. We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors. The post Palliative Care in India: M.R.

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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

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. And then our work continues in the bereavement down for a year or more to help the family with the grief. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling. . So Oliver, I like this.

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