GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. ” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. But I think one aspect there was, what’s up with cancer pain, in general? Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. You may end up there indefinitely. You’ll have a feeding tube.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

Data have shown that of the top 5% of healthcare utilization in the US, only 11% are at the end of life (Aldridge & Kelly, 2015). Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ought we, in bioethics, create ethical rules for providing care that is illegal? Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . And as you… Well, the reason we’re connecting all of this today is there are also directives that relate to end of life care.

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