Hospice News
MARCH 23, 2023
Facing potential out-of-pocket expenses has led to racial divides in advance care planning utilization among lower income and ethnically diverse groups, according to Dr. Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas.
GeriPal
JUNE 20, 2022
The All-Ukrainian Associate of Palliative and Hospice Care was founded in 2011 and is currently working to provide support and direct supplies to hospices and palliative care wards in the country. Families are unable to visit their loved ones and patients suffer from limited access to care and medications.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Walker came to Pennant in 2011 as a medical director in one of the company’s Idaho branches. We started doing the house calls, mobile palliative care, geriatric primary care work. Does a patient need palliative care, or do they need geriatrics, or do they need primary care? Then I kind of wandered.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.
GeriPal
MARCH 2, 2023
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
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. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.
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