Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2023

of hospice enrollees in 2020, compared to 7.5% In 2020, the average hospice length of stay for individuals with Alzheimer’s, Parkison’s or other dementias disease reached 143 days, NHPCO reported. That point was made this week by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) A lot has happened since the [Medicare Hospice Benefit] was first initiated.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Early childhood and cumulative lifetime trauma experiences can have negative impacts on an individual’s end-of-life experience, according to findings from a recent study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS).

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The seeds of this agreement were planted about two-and-a-half years ago, around the time that SCAN Group CEO Dr. Sachin Jain took the helm at that organization in July 2020. That’s the vision that came up with together.”. His very first meeting on his first day on the job happened to be with CareOregon’s top executive Eric C.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Led the American Geriatric Society. We address: What is coaching? Beth: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. Goldilocks zone). Nadine: Thank you, guys.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Prior to joining the organization, Cannone served as regional clinical advisor for the Ohio Department of Aging since 2020. Fluent in English, French and Arabic, Abdo has led the Louisiana State University’s geriatric medicine fellowship program since 2016. Lucie, as well as at Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JULY 1, 2024

Dr. Olusegun Apoeso was one of my attendings during my Geriatric Medicine fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NY. In doing so, we can effectively “palliate” clinicians and our patients! Who has most influenced your work and how have they shaped your contributions?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. I will say that we stopped the trial in March of 2020, which was when COVID started. And as we’ve all witnessed, it gets to a point where things are just unmanageable.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:56 And returning guest, Vicki Jackson, who’s a palliative care doc, chief of the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at MGH , professor at Harvard Medical School, and co director of the Harvard Medical School center for Palliative Care. But watch out! Who will emerge victorious? Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. And I think there’s ways that geriatrics and palliative care can kind of add an additional layer to that because we’re unique in that we can draw on the expertise of an interdisciplinary team. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. million people), a rise from roughly 22% in 2020, according to the state’s Department of Aging. About 47.6%

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics. Kotwal and fellow UCSF researchers recently examined the traumatic experiences shared by roughly 6,500 adults 51 and older nearing the end of life between 2006 and 2020 in a national Health and Retirement Study.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Oncology practices have increasingly collaborated with palliative care providers — or built their own service lines — to better support cancer patients throughout their health care journeys. Integrating palliative care deeper into oncology practices “empowers” these providers to improve utilization and quality, she indicated. An estimated 1.9

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. It’s a big episode covering a lot of topics. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Today’s podcast is both similar and different. Similar in that the underlying theme of the power of stories. Different in that these storytelling initiatives, the Nocturnists and the Palliative Story Exchange , are focused on clinicians sharing stories with each other in small groups to heal. Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Does every institution need to get a community advisory board to tailor their rural tele-palliative care initiative (or geriatrics intervention) to the local communities served? Eric and I interviewed these presenters at the meeting on Thursday (before the pub crawl, thankfully). Who would/should be on that board? Yael 00:28 Hi, everyone.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

So my piece is really reflections around caring for my mom who died toward the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, and the influence of my work in hospice and palliative care and the perspective that I brought to my care for her in that time. We got somebody in between us ,too. Alex: Yeah, we have three people in studio. Anne: Hi, guys.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

And also, by the fall of 2020, I was pretty sure that I didn’t want to be a leader anymore. Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome Jane deLima Thomas, who was a co-fellow with me back in the day in palliative care. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane 00:37 Thank you so much for inviting me.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

And then being on a scarce resource committee during March, April 2020, man, it got really complicated and we spent hours and days trying to figure things out. Govind Persad and Emily Largent appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. I think it was Bob Lee’s 2020 JAGS paper. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. We changed our name. Good to know.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? The post Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: All right, let’s jump into this topic.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

Gedney to a personal interest in end of life care, followed by fulfilling his childhood dream of going to medical school, becoming a family medicine physician, and then, pulling everything together, ultimately becoming a hospice physician and Medical Director and joining our team in July 2020.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ruth: Yeah. No, I agree.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

In the first podcast, we talked with Guy Micco and Marilyn MacEntyre about poetry and aging. In this second part in our series, we welcome Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar to talk about palliative care and poetry. . As with aging, poetry operates on multiple levels within the palliative care space. . Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Geriatrics. December 2020. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. Journal of Patient Experience. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Susan Block had reached out to me and asked if I could contribute something specifically on the experience during the peak months in New York City and COVID Pandemic in 2020. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Matthew: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. .

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