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4 Hospices Tap New Executive, Clinical Leaders 

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Bond is board-certified in family medicine, emergency medicine and hospice and palliative care medicine. He has worked in the end-of-life care space for close to two decades. Prior to that, Bond was national medical director for Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, which was acquired by AccentCare in 2020. .

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

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Hartford Foundation with a grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the Catholic Health Care Hospitals of America and the American Hospital Association. ” They were able to put together a set of evidence-based practices called the 4Ms Framework for Developing Age-Friendly Care.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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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. Abstract presenters as well. Lynn, welcome back.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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So we took a look at three different domains of quality of life that are relevant to end of life care. Much of my training has been in, in sort of the medical management and symptom management of a patient at the end of their life and thinking about how we do that. Trauma informed care approach.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g.

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Incarcerated Seniors Lack Access to Hospice Care

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Aging, incarcerated populations often have poor end-of-life care experiences, with a lack of trained hospice workers at the crux of the issue. This means they can be limited in providing end-of-life care support with things such as changing sheets or diapers, bathing or moving the dying person, he stated.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. But when you’re asking someone to make a decision about code status, you’re asking them to make a decision that is in effect right now in the present, right?