Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I think there is definitely a growing interest among rehab professionals to learn more about palliative care and how to bring that to the therapies they’re doing and conversations they’re having with families and patients,” Flint said.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice. First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices. Thus, they have little in the way of long term vision for hospices, instead focused on cutting costs and maximizing profits. . People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. AlexSmithMD.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Again, this was not an AHPM or HPNA sponsored thing, but we did go around people on the street asking them two questions: what’s one thing that you’re hoping for in the future of palliative care and hospice, and what’s another thing when you’re thinking about what you’re worried about for the field?

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Keith per many reports, is the heart and sole of the hospice unit and oversees the Pastoral Care Workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right. Alex: That one’s easy.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

Younger physicians are definitely more open [to it].” The post Obstacles and Opportunities for Palliative Care in the ICU appeared first on Hospice News. Kei Ouchi, associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Palliative Care News. “So,

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.

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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. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical. What is the nature of suffering?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Ramona Rhodes, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doctor, and member of the Board of Directors for the American Geriatric Society. Alex: And speaking of the American Geriatric Society, we are delighted to welcome Nancy Lundebjerg. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Ramona. Ramona: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care. Tune in to hear Alex’s acoustic rendition of Outkast’s Hey Y’All! We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations. Raele: Yep, they definitely can be. Raele: Yes, definitely.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. Sweet Caroline. Don’t tell my administrators.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. Alex: And we’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast Kenny Lam, who’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. The post HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart appeared first on Hospice News.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Scott: The listeners are probably well aware that urinary incontinence is one of the kind of classic geriatric syndrome. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization. We create definitions.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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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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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

Hospice News: We have Tina Taylor and we also have Christina Andrews here today. I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. Our baby boomers are around 77, and they’re approaching that average hospice age, which is 83. I believe it’s like 1 in 10 for hospice.

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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. which is kind of the typical definition of osteoporosis at that time.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Get the hospice referral.

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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. And one quibble with that of course is that we think the definition of capacity is that it’s task and context specific. Eric: And to all of our listeners, thanks for joining us.

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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. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Bruce Leff, who is also a geriatrician, and professor of medicine, and director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, and has been studying hospital-at-home since the mid-nineties. And that is, definitely, one way to approach it.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Geriatrics. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. That’s something that I figured we could definitely go after is using those negotiation skills and then moving them over towards the healthcare setting. Prof Case Manag. December 2020.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

You write a scholarly article in geriatrics, it’s not dissimilar. Louise: No, so I definitely don’t outline, because if I know what’s going to happen, I’m already bored. And it aligns with the world health definition of health, which isn’t the absence of disease. Even if I write a scholarly article.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

So my piece is really reflections around caring for my mom who died toward the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, and the influence of my work in hospice and palliative care and the perspective that I brought to my care for her in that time. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We in geriatrics and adult palliative care clinicians have so much to learn from our colleagues in pediatrics – and though many of these lessons are specific to adolescents and young adults – many of the lessons are valuable for the care of patients in older life stages.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Like, oh no, I said it.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people. We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And to do that, we’re joined by hospice pioneer, Barbara Karnes. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. Kate: Yeah.

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