Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

There are lots of other people outside of hospice and palliative care that absolutely understand that this is important. The other thing is just continuing to advance our evidence base, our high-quality care whether that is in palliative care or hospice. And I think that we don’t need to do that alone.

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Hospice of the North Coast

MARCH 10, 2021

Wondering how to meet the unique foodservice needs of your loved one during palliative care? Force-feeding those who have lost their appetites and thirst may cause distress, even if it is well-intentioned by family or caregivers who feel compelled to get food into the patient. Keep hot food hot and cold food cold!

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. We came together here virtually in the New England area, and we were talking about research and talked about palliative care. Goldilocks zone).

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

In our discipline of palliative care, understanding the unique needs and characteristics of the population is essential for providing effective and high-quality care. In recent years, with the rise of value-based care, palliative care has expanded beyond the realms of hospital and immediate cancer pain care.

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Changing Lives Podcast

MARCH 21, 2022

Human nature compels us to nurture our loved ones in many ways, feeding being one method - however it is important to recognize that nutrition at the end-of-life is much different than how people eat prior to illness. Find out more in this week's Changing Lives podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver. ALS can also impair the ability to think and cause significant changes to a person’s memory.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

” So feeding them little soundbites that they might be able to take off the tip sheet and use if they had the opportunity. The post Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Summary Transcript Summary.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 27, 2025

To tie this with what residents, fellows and resident physicians in palliative care and hospice experience, that training is incredibly difficult, Anderson told Palliative Care News. For some of our residents and fellows this was hugely life-changing, he said.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

While we recognize that a caregiver isn’t hired to be a personal chef, sometimes clients do not have the ability to feed themselves or would appreciate being cared for in a small way with a simple dish.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Community-based palliative care networks .

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. We’ve had two podcast already on poems in both aging and in palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Janet Ho, who is a palliative care doc and addiction medicine doc and associate professor at UCSF. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Janet 00:26 Thank you so much.

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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. Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today. Hope 00:31 Thanks.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2025

She was the first endowed professor of palliative care nursing in the nation, the Earle Zeigler Endowed Chair in Palliative Care Nursing at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing. I don’t want to see in my feed that everyone dies. Matzo has been a registered nurse for 47 years and holds a Ph.D

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Alex, who is in between us right now? Alex: Okay. So Sei Lee is here.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. First up, we have Adam Marks, who is a med, peds and palliative care physician and associate professor at the University of Michigan.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. And I’ve said, just because I’m a Palliative care doc does not mean that you should give me a short trip. They’ve all been laid out for you.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. And as I went through the journey with my master’s, I discovered home health and then hospice and palliative care. What drew you to this field?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care. Alex 00:41 And returning we have Ashwin Kotwal, who is a palliative care doc and geriatrician and assistant professor at UCSF. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

How does the geriatric assessment lead to improved completion of advance directives, when the assessment doesn’t address advance care planning/directives at all? How does palliative care fit into all this? And following these guidelines is really important because geriatric and palliative care related problems are really common.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. That was from our what?

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

They also apply their specialized knowledge of hospice pharmacology to support hospice nurses to caring for individual patients. Every call or message creates a case that feeds into our newly developed dashboard. Unlike some competitors who outsource, our dedicated team ensures continuity of care.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We have Hsien Seow, who is the Canadian Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health Systems Innovation and Professor in the Department of Oncology at McMaster University in Canada.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

She has offered and reviewed many publications relevant to the topics of palliative care, ethics, hospice, and communication. I lead a hospice with about 260 ADC patients, including an inpatient unit with 16 beds, and 1,700 patients in palliative care ranging from clinic, inpatient units, and in the home.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Connelly argues that end-of-life care has become “over-medicalized” and that more patients would choose hospice and palliative care if they had a better understanding both of those services and the alternatives. And the role of the palliative care doctor is to present the glass half empty, meaning it won’t work.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. It’s awesome.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Janet is the author of the 4th edition of the book Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, along with co-authors Molly Collins and BR Daubman. This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. .

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome Jane deLima Thomas, who was a co-fellow with me back in the day in palliative care. You know, us in palliative care, we’re fueled by death anxiety, by a lot of loss. I was a director of our palliative care team. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor, VitalTalk co-founder. Alex: A feeding tube. Jacky: Thank you.

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