Feeding Geriatrics Medical director 
GeriPal
MARCH 20, 2025
To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us. Take it over.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 17, 2024
He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. He’s in Boston. It’s awesome.
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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
They often have behavioral issues stemming from their disorder, their life circumstances, all sort of feeding into each other. So there are some clinics where you can talk to the medical director and they may give people like a take home dose for the afternoon. They’re often angry.
GeriPal
MAY 9, 2024
He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. For GeriPal, it’s really to bring geriatrics and palliative care together. I think your most-watched video is around 750,000 views. Does that sound about right? Sammy: I don’t look. Great title.
GeriPal
MAY 1, 2025
Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome Meredith Green e , a friend, a geriatrician, researcher, associate professor at Indiana University, who was previously with us at UCSF in our division of geriatrics. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about HIV and geriatrics and palliative care. But to kind of ease us into it.
GeriPal
JANUARY 5, 2023
Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . 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.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 19, 2024
They are recruiting for a Medical Director of Palliative Care Services to lead and grow innovative outpatient and inpatient palliative care programs. I mean, if somebody has really bad depression and they stop eating and nobody bothers to feed them or make sure that they eat, then, yeah, they could die. Eric 35:53 Yeah.
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