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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

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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. The post How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle appeared first on Hospice News.

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Palliative Care in A Conflict Zone: Help Us Support Our Hospice and Palliative Care Colleagues in Ukraine

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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. Please donate to help hospice and palliative care in Ukraine by donating here: [link]. By Alex Kazberouk and the GeriPal Team.

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Pennant Group CMO Derrel Walker: Hospice, Home Health Can Complete the Care Continuum

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Walker came to Pennant in 2011 as a medical director in one of the company’s Idaho branches. Pennant is the holding company for a cluster of independent hospice, home health and senior living providers located across 13 states. We started doing the house calls, mobile palliative care, geriatric primary care work.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care. Tune in to hear Alex’s acoustic rendition of Outkast’s Hey Y’All! We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. The post Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?