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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She put her back out.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.” ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Eric: Yeah.

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