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link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the MedicalDirector of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. To medicaldirectors, chiefs, and some were really cool to talk to me. those experiencing homelessness). Naheed 16:20 Yeah.
He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medicaldirector of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Well, so there is a debate in the field as to the definition of Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid alone is enough of a definition of Alzheimer’s. Nate 00:25 Thanks for having me.
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.
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. Nate, is it you?
Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medicaldirector at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. The definition of capacity in ethics and medicine, law. I think that Advanced Dementia Fest 7A and beyond that is by definition end stage.
We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal. Geriatrician?
We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding MedicalDirector of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Michele: That was perfect. Alex: That was perfect. Michele: Yep.
He’s a palliative care doctor and he is MedicalDirector of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. There’s definitely a… But I’ve never… I don’t think I appeal to an academic audience.
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He’s a medicaldirector of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He’s in Boston.
Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS MedicalDirector job description. Yes, my hair is definitely on fire. Joseph: I mean, like I said before, his paper is very well written, reflects our job description for a medicaldirector.
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We could have talked for 4 hours and will definitely revisit this issue! So there are some clinics where you can talk to the medicaldirector and they may give people like a take home dose for the afternoon. We all have questions. We addressed as many of your listener questions as we could. Sometimes the drugs dont work.
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. And it became a terror for me. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.
Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. If you’re done, we can offer you medication or procedure.” Mara: Thanks for having me.
They are recruiting for a MedicalDirector of Palliative Care Services to lead and grow innovative outpatient and inpatient palliative care programs. And I definitely don’t sing as well as him. We want clear boundaries and clear definitions and we try to impose them. It makes it really hard.
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the MedicalDirector of palliative care at Devoted Health. We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. Brooke: Thank you.
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