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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

What’s the difference between end-of-life doula and a hospice volunteer? Beth: It depends on the volunteer. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. They’re not all end-of-life doulas. Even a hospice volunteer, there are downsides because now you got to train hospice volunteers.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population.

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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

GeriPal

It was my experience as a hospice volunteer that maybe leave the corporate world and go to nursing school and ultimately become a palliative care nurse practitioner. From the beginning of coming to palliative care, I’ve noticed we’ve had a messaging opportunity, perhaps a problem. ” “Oh, yeah.