Books Geriatrics Medical director 
Hospice News
JUNE 2, 2022
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 medical director sit in on case management and case conferences to understand “should we have actually coded this differently than we did?”
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
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 Medical Director job description.
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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)
JUNE 6, 2024
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.
GeriPal
JUNE 29, 2023
On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director 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.
GeriPal
MAY 9, 2024
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 Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care.
GeriPal
AUGUST 31, 2023
He spent a long time as hospice medical director 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].
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
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.
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