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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

Additionally, among beneficiaries who died between 2006 and 2011, one in eight toggled between a hospital and an SNF during their final year of life, the study found. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Psychological Trauma Can Worsen Symptom Burden at End-of-Life

Hospice News

Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics. Kotwal and fellow UCSF researchers recently examined the traumatic experiences shared by roughly 6,500 adults 51 and older nearing the end of life between 2006 and 2020 in a national Health and Retirement Study.

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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

Early childhood and cumulative lifetime trauma experiences can have negative impacts on an individual’s end-of-life experience, according to findings from a recent study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS).

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

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. It’s a big episode covering a lot of topics. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. Annals of IM.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive.

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