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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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The move toward risk-based reimbursement systems 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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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Facing potential out-of-pocket expenses has led to racial divides in advance care planning utilization among lower income and ethnically diverse groups, according to Dr. Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. I think geriatrics very proud of interprofessional care.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. There’s this beauty that’s there, whether we’re doing geriatrics, infectious disease, palliative care. Anne: Hi, guys.

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

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

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So our outpatient palliative care team does not have psychiatrists or psychologists or frankly, social workers. Areej: I think it was 2016. Eric: 2016. The model is predominantly physicians, advanced practice providers. I loved Areej’s article. What year did it come out? I loved it so much.