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‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care

Hospice News

Prison populations across the United States saw a 280% rise in incarcerated seniors in this age group from 1999 to 2016, the research found. The population that is over 55 — considered geriatric inside prisons because people’s life spans are much shorter there — is nearly one-third of the prison population,” Gorlock told local news.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery. And that really created an opportunity to study this.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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

GeriPal

So like I said, I got to meet Thor, I believe it was May, 2016. Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Depends om my audience. Eric: And what are you doing as far as a research project? How are you looking into this? Heather: Yeah.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. We’ve mentioned buprenorphine, is that kind of the main thing that we should be thinking about in palliative care clinics and geriatric clinics for people with your use disorder?

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

So like I said, I got to meet Thor, I believe it was May, 2016. The post Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Depends om my audience. Eric: And what are you doing as far as a research project? Heather: Yeah.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Anne: Right. Why are they doing this?