GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. John: I do.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion. What words to use? Under what circumstances? Is the POLST useful?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Starting bar TBD, look for the GeriPal post, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** Today we celebrate eight years, around 2 million listens, and 300 podcasts! We answer your questions hot ones style. Every two questions we ate a chicken wing covered in hot sauce. What’s going on here?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Pujari maintains that the health care system is not effectively managing the lengthy decline that precedes mortality, and that hospices can do more for patients in the home than many are currently doing. Hospice News spoke with Pujari about her vision for hospice care and what it would take to make it a reality.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

“When I think about the staffing issues and just some of the career burnout, and how to really attract and grow our specialty area of palliative medicine, we have a lot of forces working against us,” Campbell told Palliative Care News at the conference. What are their expectations? There are a lot of specialty areas within medicine.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

In this interview, Palliative Care News sits down with Bruera to discuss the landscape of palliative care and what he sees for the future of the field. What drew you to the palliative care field? When I trained, we focused on the management of cancer. When I trained, we focused on the management of cancer.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

[In the HOPE tool] the majority of the questions are nurse focused, so they’ll have to look at how they’re staffing their nurses in terms of the initial visits and doing the hospice update visits and making sure that their nurses can complete everything in a timely manner,” Barnett told Hospice News. “It’s

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” We then decided to challenge others and asked them to post their videos online using the hashtag #thickenedliquidchallenge. Eric: Alex, we got a great show today on Dysphagia Revisited. Raele: I do.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. Unfortunately, we lack the financial structures to reimburse psychologists that would incentivize widespread inclusion on palliative care teams. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

What led to your interest in hospice and palliative care and stepping into a clinical role? We as physicians can better guide their medical-decision making and help with the strain, the pain symptoms and the overall physical and mental stress that comes with these types of illnesses. What was the demand for a program such as this one?

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Hospice News

MARCH 25, 2024

Can you share what led to the start of your services? We set out to provide patients in the greater Phoenix area with the best possible hospice care that they can get. We recognized that this demographic tsunami was coming that would need this continuum of care with palliative, hospice and home health.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

What are your biggest 2024 focuses, challenges and goals? We’re really focusing on value-based care, which is that piece of primary care where you have the alignment, and you’re able to manage that risk. We’re also at risk already with our PACE program. And you have many different tools to do that.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

HSPN: What drew you to this industry? After doing some research and talking with my music teacher at the time, I discovered music therapy and never turned back. HSPN: What do you want society (or the general public) to know about your job? We are highly trained clinicians that happen to use music as their main tool.

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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

“At medical schools and medical institutions, we kept hearing the same thing over and over again: ‘I’m so bad at self care,’” Ellison told Palliative Care News. People are forgetting why they’re doing what they’re doing and not feeling supported.” Everyone feels isolated. People felt disconnected.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film provides a window into what hospices actually do, as well as the experience of families whose loved ones are nearing end of life, the challenges of caregiving and grief that often begins long before the patient dies, according to Jonathan Fleece, CEO of Empath Health. “I We have family gathering places.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study and before that with Sarah Szanton about the CAPABLE study. Eric: Alex, who do we have with us today? We’ll be able to be in two places at once. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Palliative care has a lot to do with the core naturopathic principles and dovetails so well with it,” Luepker told Palliative Care News. We can get down to a granular level of pain. There’s an interconnectedness and a transformation that can happen when we focus on what is true and most meaningful to people.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

As a clinician, we’re often expecting these untrained, informal caregivers to do what it took some of us years in school to be trained to be able to do,” Ferebee said at the conference. “We’re We’re asking them to assess the needs of their loved one and then implement intervention based on it.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Blue Ridge Hospice CEO Jason Parsons What are your top priorities as you move into the CEO role? Our first priority for 2024 includes the launch of our PACE program, which we call Blue Ridge Independence at Home. I think that’s akin to what hospices often hear, “We wish we would have called you sooner.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

We have round-the-clock doulas that can be available when our clinical staff are not,” Sancilio said. We do see the impact of having end-of-life doulas and the care that families experience in those last couple of days.” We bridge the gap between death and hospice care at the end of their life journey.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Looking at the macro level, what would you say are the biggest changes that have occurred in the hospice space since your organization came on the scene? We measure the score at Partners In Care by how well we do with patient care, and we call it a victory when we were rated five-stars by [the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Michael Connelly, author and former CEO of Mercy Health What is death literacy? And so what exactly is death literacy? When you’re talking to a doctor, and you’re saying, “Well, is there anything we can do for X, Y, or Z?” Then the doctor is going to find something to do for those things.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

We wanted to give those people more of a runway to have bigger conversations, with also the understanding that we’re going to be in a place to talk about hospice care with them as well. Deeping their partnership seemed like a natural next step, according to Mettle Health COO Sonya Dolan. ‘We

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Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

VitalCaring VitalCaring VitalCaring President Luke James We spoke early last year about VitalCaring’s launch. We’re very well-poised going into 2024 to start executing on our growth strategy. We did a couple of acquisitions last year. We had a great year of growth last year. Not a lot right now.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. This week we dive into the challenges with communication when it comes to life sustaining treatments and CPR. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? The first one we published last week on miscommunication.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Chapters Health Chapters Health Chapters Health System CEO Andrew Molosky What’s next for chapters in 2024? What are your big priorities? I’m sure one of the follow up questions would be how do you prioritize what initiatives to do right now, which opportunities present in 2024. We do primary care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, surgeons often spend the majority of their conversations with patients describing anatomical details and exactly how they plan to ‘fix it’ , with little discussion of what that ‘fix’ will do for a patient’s overall goals. We hope you enjoy this episode. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Justin: No.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s really important that they understand in a developmentally appropriate way what’s happening and what to expect. We provide opportunities for children to have a say in their care plan and end-of-life planning. The lack of availability is one main reason we are doing this.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. Much more to come.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As soon as I became acquainted with what they were doing and what they were all about, it all made sense,” Mulder told Hospice News. This is what dad needed, but that wasn’t available [when he passed away] in 1980.” What are some of the challenges specific to palliative care?

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Hospice News

MARCH 20, 2024

There’s a lot of trends [and] we see it from inpatient palliative care, outpatient palliative care, home- based types of palliative care and community-based and clinic-based as well,” Andres told Palliative Care News. “I’m Palliative care is very attractive. We’re not trying to take over, but improve their care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We do need process improvements [to] do all the things to make the visit and experience the best we can make it. We do need process improvements [to] do all the things to make the visit and experience the best we can make it. End-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. We discuss the moral distress that clinicians felt including, as one physician put it, a sense of your soul being ripped out. I’ll do introductions first.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

My last company, Apixio, we sold in 2020. At that company, we used AI and natural language processing to read physician’s typewritten notes, to understand clinical quality and risk. About 80% of our patients are in California, but we also serve patients in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But does the geriatric assessment do anything? We talk about: What is a practical geriatric assessment and how can busy oncologists actually do one? What can you do with the results of a geriatric assessment? What groups are being left out of trials? Alex: We got a full house. John: Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Today we talk with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss, two nurse researchers who are focused on improving the experience of Black/African American caregivers of persons living with dementia. We talk in particular about: Terminology. Acknowledging that the most sensitive terms shift over time, what terms are they using today and why?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 24, 2023

What drew you to the hospice field? Like a lot of people who work in hospice, I never sought out to do this work. My grandfather died from lung cancer as a result of what’s called black lung disease. And I think that a lot of us who do this work really feel called to do it. I had a meandering sort of path.

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