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Several Large Hospice Providers See Leadership Transitions

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Empath Health offers hospice, home health, palliative care, bereavement support, adult day services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) programs, and primary, elderly and geriatric care. The nonprofit organization has grown into one of the largest hospice providers in the nation.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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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? And then we did interviews with bereavement caregivers and we asked about distress and goal concordant end of life care. Who would/should be on that board?

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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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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). Hetu-Robert is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy Reserve.

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Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson

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Alex: We are so fortunate to be joined by one of my former mentors who I’ve known for 20 years, Holly Prigerson, who is now Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical School and Professor of Sociology and Medicine and Director of the Center for Research on End Of Life Care. The word bereavement means robbed.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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There’s not enough support that goes out to you and there’s a lot of grief, bereavement and loss that is unaddressed. The post PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

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In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. And the first service is bereavement. The post Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Tony: Hello.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

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Here you are listening, listening to these former caregivers, these bereaved caregivers tell their stories and giving them an opportunity to give back and contribute. Alex: I think it was Carol Levine who wrote a New England Journal perspective as a caregiver saying, “Nobody’s listening. Isn’t anybody listening?”

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