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Landers, a physician certified in family, geriatric and hospice and palliative medicine, has been president and CEO of VNA Health Group since 2012. At VNA, Landers led a staff of 2,400 who serve an average daily census of more than 12,000 patients.
Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. See also our accompanying editorial , first author Ashwin Kotwal who joins today as a co-host, and a podcast I recorded with JAMA editor Preeti Malani). Alex, who are our guests today?
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. I mean, you can walk along some aside somebody making a choice you disagree with and still palliate their symptoms and care for them. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us.
There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ).
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. Happy to be here.
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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