GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Transcript.

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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. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Anne: Right. Alex: Oh no.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Judy: Thank you.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF.

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