2008 Geriatrics Hospice 
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light.
Pallimed
JULY 11, 2022
Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty! Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. Spread the word! We have just entered our teenage years.
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High Peaks Hospice
MARCH 1, 2022
High Peaks Hospice would like to honor our Medical Director, Dr. Curt Gedney for National Doctors Day by sharing information about him with the team. He spent the summer side by side with Dr. Weissman going on hospice visits, assisting with curriculum, and more. The move to upstate NY and joining High Peaks Hospice.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Samir: Yeah.
1-800-HOSPICE
JANUARY 18, 2022
Hospice Supports Families as Well as Patients. Fortunately, as America has begun going home to die with higher quality of life at ever increasing rates, the hospice industry has also grown to support that. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Caregiver Education in Hospice.
GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. So this is 2008 when they were running this study, I’m like why did the heck did they choose buprenorphine?
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right. Lynn: All right.
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