GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. And people are getting life sentences.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. So our outpatient palliative care team does not have psychiatrists or psychologists or frankly, social workers. Eric: I’m going to go back in time a little bit. What year did your New England journal article come out, Jennifer?

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So before we became accredited by, with the Joint Commission in their home care program, we were already receiving referrals from local physicians, nurses, social workers, discharge planners, at a number of different healthcare systems in the area. Our agency is strictly a personal care agency.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician. Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them.

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