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.

Palliative care 234

Palliative care Palliate Long-term care 2030 234

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. We also touch briefly on topics discussed in prior podcasts such as loneliness and federal responses to the pandemic in relation to long-term care.

Article 130

Article Definition 2021 Geriatrics 130

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

Long-term care 275

Long-term care Grief 2020 Medical director 275