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Brigham Young Geriatrician: Physician Residents Need to Learn Hospice Principles, Senior’s Specific Needs

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Physicians in training need greater exposure to geriatric training in order to better grasp the needs of older patients, including during transitions to hospice, according to Dr. Julia Lowenthal, a geriatrician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. I think reflecting on one’s own feelings about aging is really important.

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How your home care agency can get started with a referral marketing program

AlayaCare

According to the 2021 Home Care Benchmarking Study , 6 out of the top 20 marketing sources for home care clients came from healthcare professional referrals. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. Think outside of healthcare too.

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How your home care agency can get started with a referral marketing program

AlayaCare

According to the 2021 Home Care Benchmarking Study , 6 out of the top 20 marketing sources for home care clients came from healthcare professional referrals. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. Think outside of healthcare too.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Attendee 5: That we are so integrated into the very fabric of healthcare that it’s a no-brainer in every single discipline because you know what? We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. We are not an extra layer of support. We are actually the integrator.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that?

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