Hospice of the North Coast

MARCH 10, 2021

Force-feeding those who have lost their appetites and thirst may cause distress, even if it is well-intentioned by family or caregivers who feel compelled to get food into the patient. Board Certified Specialist in Geriatric Nutrition Consultant for Hospice of the North Coast. Harbord, MS, RDN.

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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 24, 2022

And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Can you just talk to him about hospice?” ” Inevitably, it’s always when I jump to hospice, they’re all, “Wait, what’s hospice? Get the hospice referral.

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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 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

MAY 12, 2022

I see them in your hospices, Tom. So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings. Rajagopal appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. They are there. She had no money for a bus fare.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. But honestly, right now in our hospice unit, once I start getting into higher and higher doses, I recognize earlier on that just pouring more of the same in often is not the best approach.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

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. Alex: I just want to note for our listeners, I told LaVera this when we just had a conversation a couple weeks ago before doing this podcast.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. I’ve had people dying on hospice that don’t have pain. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . And you feed the medicine in.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. And then, “I call hospice giving up.” After days of discuss my patient decided to go home on hospice with her family, no tracheostomy, no respirator. Transcript.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. A lot of them ended up having functional limitations that made that if they came from home, they ended up going to a nursing facility or hospice. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. And so we had a grant in 1980, right before the first AIDS patients came, to start a hospice unit. We could have talked for hours. It’s bigger.

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