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VNA Health Group CEO Steve Landers to Leave Company, Take Helm at Hebrew SeniorLife

Hospice News

Landers, a physician certified in family, geriatric and hospice and palliative medicine, has been president and CEO of VNA Health Group since 2012.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

J Am Geriatr Soc. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. So when I then shift over and think about being a geriatric psychiatrist and thinking about the older adult patient population, that really shifts into where these are being used for pain.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. And I knew it was a matter of time before this came along. There was a patient who was living in Seattle at a skilled nursing facility.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

And I think that’s something that we can really focus on, especially with geriatric patients. Not just about like we think in geriatrics training, it was about like, you had one category about, like, obesity, in one category about inadvertent weight loss. They really need that. Eric 06:41 Yeah. Anna 32:07 Yeah.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. The post End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I would say 15 to 20 years, death doulas have been around.

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Gender Affirmations and Sexual Orientations – What Nurses NEED to know

The Nurse Break

Check out other must-read articles here Shauna has a Diploma in Nursing from Kangan Batman TAFE and more than 8 years’ experience working within various healthcare fields including Geriatric, Community, Oncology, and currently as a civilian nurse contractor in the Defence environment. 7th ed.s.l.:

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