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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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We’re representing the American Geriatric Society today and we are delighted to be here in the podcast. We used all of our political capital to make sure it happens in Chicago, which is where we started for the literature Updates back in 2016, back when it was just me and Ken, and then we brought in Alex, like two years later.

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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

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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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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016.

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found. million primary care visits in 2016.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? They got feedback.

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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas. Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping). Celine Dion. Transcript.