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Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients Need Greater Access to Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

As awareness and acceptance of advance care planning gains ground among health care providers and the general public, children with life-limiting illnesses are sometimes left behind. Some stakeholders have sought to improve access to advance care planning for pediatric patients.

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3 Palliative Care Providers to Watch

Hospice News

Doug talks very eloquently and passionately about the challenges in his family of managing care when a loved one has a serious illness. He often talks about his father, who has a longstanding serious illness,” Smith told Palliative Care News. This is up from 1,700 patients in three states in 2020.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

On the other hand, the ruling allowed states to set their own evidentiary standards to refuse or withdraw life sustaining interventions. Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

Many people strive, struggle, crawl even back toward a “ normal ” life. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. We could have talked for hours! After the shock? And I get to play a Bob Dylan song that’s been on my bucket list to learn. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Bill: Thank you.

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

GeriPal

This 17-bed unit serves inmates from all over the state who are approaching the end of their lives. Today’s podcast is part one of a two-part podcast where we spend a day at CMF, a medium security prison located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the hospice unit housed inside its walls. This is Eric Widera.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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Emergency Documents

Chicago Caregiving

As we age, it becomes increasingly important to have medical, financial, and end-of-life information immediately available in case of an emergency. This will ensure the person you choose has access to the information they need when the time comes, whether in a medical or financial emergency, or to inform end-of-life decisions.

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