Pallimed

JULY 11, 2022

Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty! Lastly, many are working in health care organizations which still treat palliative medicine and hospice physicians as “nice to have” instead of “essential.” If geriatrics is on there, so are we. Spread the word! " Give me a couple years.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). We also had the pleasure to take a walk through the hospice unit garden with Mr. Gerald Hite. Eric: And Alex, last week we did episode one of Hospice in Prison. So take a listen.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Though hospice deal volume dipped in 2022 compared to previous years, five particular transactions could paint a larger picture of where investors see value in the space. These interesting, unusual or groundbreaking deals could signal what’s to come in 2023 and help shape the hospice market’s long-term future. This was Humana Inc.’s

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. You can’t do that if you don’t contract and work with someone to provide hospice care. independent of the JV.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And to do that, we’re joined by hospice pioneer, Barbara Karnes. 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. 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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Get the hospice referral.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

I see them in your hospices, Tom. 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. Tom, I believe the only thing necessary is to open the door to them. They are there. Absolutely not.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. This report paved the way for the RAISE Family Caregivers Act, which passed into law in 2018. This includes the 2.4

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