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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.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
We supplement that with additional resources and articles and things. That assumes that you have somebody at home who’s willing and able to take care of you. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. I propose that is the social worker.
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GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.
Hospice Nurse Hero
MARCH 2, 2022
Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Also, nurse supervisors can share survey scores and comments with the hospice IDG. To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Eric: And Sarguni for you coming in as a hospitalist, as a researcher, probably a lot of hospitalists have never actually walked into a skilled nursing facility before. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Eric: I felt that reading the article.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Yeah.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future.
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