AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. In recent years, with the rise of value-based care, palliative care has expanded beyond the realms of hospital and immediate cancer pain care.

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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. And I’ve said, just because I’m a Palliative care doc does not mean that you should give me a short trip. They’ve all been laid out for you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. That was from our what?

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

/a> Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. H ospice and Palliative Care Month has arrived. The answer to that question determined whether the beer went down the feeding tube or was a savor and spit process.

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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. We came together here virtually in the New England area, and we were talking about research and talked about palliative care. Goldilocks zone).

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

She recently spoke with Hospice News about the industry’s changing environment and the potential to revise aspects of the Medicare benefit, as well as top priorities for her upcomiing term at AAHPM. Do you think there are aspects of the Medicare benefit as it’s currently designed that need to be changed or updated?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And I’m particularly interested in how we think palliative care measures and metrics using unstructured notes. That will be the last one in his life.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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