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Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.
Well, I don’t think we have enough time, but I probably made every mistake in the book. We started having palliative care IDGs, where we would have our medicaldirector sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?”
And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS MedicalDirector job description.
AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)
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Years later, when I was a geriatric fellow, he gave me another gift by asking me to review James Hallenbeck’s remarkable book Palliative Care Perspectives for the Journal of Palliative Medicine. This honor also recognizes the shared vision and values of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Geriatrics.
On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medicaldirector and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). But I was sitting vigil with him and just sitting there, just reading a book, just there. And she’ll never forget that book that they read together. ” He was hardcore.
She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order. He’s a palliative care doctor and he is MedicalDirector of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care.
He spent a long time as hospice medicaldirector and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. This is a blind spot for me. inaudible].
Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. And it became a terror for me. It has multiple prints and updates.
To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Many links: Mara Buchbinder’s book – Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. And so I decided to look at medical aid in dying.
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