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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Palliative care is an evolving field. Though long-established as a medical specialty, these health care services have yet to reach their full potential due to reimbursement pressures, poor awareness and staffing headwinds. Census Bureau.

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Population Health, Quality, and Palliative Care: The Role of Public and Private Payors

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

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). Population health refers to the health outcomes of a specific group or population. However, this workforce needs financial and policy support from public and private payers to succeed.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Oh my gosh, can’t believe I’ve been here more than once now. Bragging rights. That was from our what?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. You’ll have a feeding tube. Alex: But I’m talking about-. Joel: Talk about it. Alex: You probably did, yes. Joel: Yeah.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project. Ought we, in bioethics, create ethical rules for providing care that is illegal? Who will follow them, and what would be their incentive for doing so? It’s bigger. SPONSOR: .

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