Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Roughly 5 to 8 million older adults nationwide have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from the supplement Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). Collaborations with mental health organizations that touch these patients’ lives will be pivotal for those who could potentially reach palliative care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics. I didn’t see very many AIDS patients.

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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. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? I was on service and I had a geriatrics fellow and a palliative care fellow. Welcome back, Rebecca.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Eric: And I think it’s hard too, because how much of it is these big researchy outcomes that we care about, versus like there are distinct populations that really benefit from things like a living will, assigning a surrogate decision-maker, that are not your traditional next of kin folks that most states have.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. There are 86-year-olds living in a nursing home with frailty, who I say, “I’m a geriatrician.” Tony: And don’t call it a living will because wills are about dying. ” “Oh, yeah. That’s great. Marian: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It helped me to understand and justify my interest in (this won’t surprise you) EVERYTHING related to geriatrics or palliative care. The post Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s more of a conversation.

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