Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. We are an in-home care company. Longitudinal is managed by RNs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Anne: Right. Alex: Oh no.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Kate: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Wallace, C.L., In Donesky, D.,

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Eric: So we are going to be talking about the importance of engaging family members and caregivers and into the, I don’t want to say care, I just said care too many times, into the care of our patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 28, 2023

Sometimes, we are put into a difficult position of communicating information that involves bad news such as, a poor prognosis or clarifying treatment goals to a family member with an advanced illness. Ask: Determine each patient’s preference for receiving prognostic information. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

We have Brienne Miner who is a geriatrician and sleep specialist and assistant professor at Yale in geriatrics. Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Brienne: Thank you for having me.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

How do caregivers fit into this? Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome Tamryn Gray, who is an oncology and blood marrow transplant nurse by training and is a palliative care and caregiving researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Goldilocks zone). How high is too high?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. So what do we do about it? What’s wrong with the “pictures of hands clasping each other” as our palliative care meme?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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. Carmen: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. I could walk down the hall and get information.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. Lexy: Great to be here.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers’ mental health. J Palliat MEd.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. ” Alex: So I’m sure there’s some element of difference between what the patient might say and what their caregiver might say about this issue. I can get you guys that information. Eric: Okay. Is it you, Emmy?

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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 ). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms. JAMA Health Forum. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. J Palliat Med. The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Afterwards, I thought there must be a better way. Foundations for Psychological Thinking in Palliative Care: Frame and Formulation. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0256

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and a T-32 research fellow in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics. He’s a Geriatrician Palliative Care Clinician Researcher, also in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, James.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. We wanted to give clinicians phrases that they could keep in their back pocket and use when discussing deprescribing with patients and caregivers. ” Ariel: Exactly. That was the target group.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We additionally have a debate/discussion about which outcomes of ACP matter most, including Terri Fried’s commentary in JAGS that caregiver outcomes matter more than goal concordant care (the “holy grail”), completion of advance directives, or changes in health care services use. Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Depression?

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. We do have the information of both our emergent call center and our electronic methods to access those forms. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. We changed our name. Alex: National POLST Collaborative.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

If I was somebody where if I had had to miss work, if I was, say, the sole caregiver for kids and I had dealt with side effects, it might have been more of a sacrifice. Govind Persad and Emily Largent appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I was glad to be protected against harm.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Just supporting each other too, because how many people are leaving healthcare, but especially leaving this geriatric medicine post-acute facet because they get frustrated or they get fearful of, of these kind of situations. unique facts and information. So that’ll be the cough and all of that stuff.

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