Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Seriously ill seniors in prison settings often do not receive the full interdisciplinary scope of palliative services, including limited nursing visits, according to David Gorlock, Pennsylvania’s state organizer for the advocacy group Straight Ahead. They didn’t have a specific nurse for them.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Melissa: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. Yeah, April 5th, 2021.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We invited her back along with Alaine to talk about their work around negotiation training, including their work on NegotiAge , an online, AI based training intervention designed to teach negotiation skills to caregivers. . Geriatrics. Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms. 2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. JAMA Health Forum. And yet they’re dying. And so we try to meet them where they are.

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