Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The Door to NP Entrepreneurship Hanging one’s shingle as an NP presents many hoops to jump through. Blood products, TPN, dobutamine for heart failure, and other therapies can be administered in hospices , nursing homes, assisted living and memory care facilities, and other settings.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. The post HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart appeared first on Hospice News.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. Hospice News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? That roundtable approach is key in hospice as it is at CHAP.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. This could lead to community panel discussions, joint presentations, and cross-company in-services. Start by making a list of each potential business that could refer a patient or resident to you.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. Senior and geriatric advisors. This could lead to community panel discussions, joint presentations, and cross-company in-services. One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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HPNA podcast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this episode, HPNA and HPNF board members Rikki Hooper and Yvonne Ruathaiwat expand on their perspectives and experiences regarding the palliative continuum of care, and how they break down the silos between palliative care and hospice. She has been part of the core team for several Project Echo projects at Four Seasons.

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Comfort Home Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Pat Grant, Chair of AAHP, asked Gerri to speak on the important topic of home health care during Home Health Care and Hospice Care Month (November). Listen to the entire presentation First Four Questions People Ask About In-Home Care Deciding if your loved one needs care can be difficult.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Aging, incarcerated populations often have poor end-of-life care experiences, with a lack of trained hospice workers at the crux of the issue. It’s terrible how many men and women are experiencing their last days or hours of life in prison,” Garlock told Hospice News. He currently speaks on health equity among prison populations.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). Alex: And we’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast Kenny Lam, who’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. staff training in person centered care).

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

If you’re an agency who also provides pt, OT of speech pathology, registered nursing at home, geriatric management, that’s a wonderful thing. Sometimes same thing happens with hospice care, you know, sadly is, you know, they’re in the home, the patient’s taking the turn for the worst and hospice care is needed.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! And love that Jim Croce choice. Whats in a name? Ive got a name.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

They got a decision support tool that identified hospice patients or those who might benefit from a goals of care discussion. hospice use). But what we don’t know is are they already on hospice? It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. No, no, no.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Ramona Rhodes, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doctor, and member of the Board of Directors for the American Geriatric Society. Alex: And speaking of the American Geriatric Society, we are delighted to welcome Nancy Lundebjerg. The same thing happens in geriatrics. Ramona: Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. However, I love, and I’m just going to quote from your paper here, this framing as an extension, this is enhancing our autonomy, particularly in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care. Tune in to hear Alex’s acoustic rendition of Outkast’s Hey Y’All! We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Hospice services right now really can’t be provided concurrent with SNF care, which means if a person is approaching the end of their life, if they’re really doing poorly, many times the easiest route is back to the hospital,” the study’s lead author, Dr. Lynn Flint, told Palliative Care News.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. In the hospice unit that I work in, what we see sometimes is people are on, like, 20 different medicines.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. Well, I don’t know.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? And as I was getting ready to see him, I saw that a month before, his oncologist had said, we don’t have any more disease specific treatment than I recommend hospice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). Who would/should be on that board?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. That’s the problem. What are other options?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We also invited Beth Klint to speak about the doula’s role within a traditional hospice organization. We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. Why Beth?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Keri: Yeah.

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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. Transcript.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. Another, students presenting says the patient has had below the knee amputation times two.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Sarah 24:24 See, I usually always present it as these are things we should think of. This is a normal thing we need to talk about and not present it as something, oh, because of how sick you are, we’re going to talk about this, really try to normalize it. Butrans is a lot of hospices don’t even have it on their formula.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

I look at the leadership team, so the administrator, the DON, the medical director, the director of staff development, the infection preventionist now, the whole team because we’re running mini hospitals and there’s no way that the administrator understands geriatric medicine. You mentioned hospices, staffing agencies.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In this episode, we share the joy of talking with Wendy MacNaughton (artist, author, graphic journalist) and Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist teacher, author, founder of the Metta Institute and Zen Hospice Project) about using drawings and images as tools for creating human connections and processing death and dying. Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics. It was a lot of fun.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. I’m going to start off with Lexy. Lexy: I think chaplains should be required in many more settings.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And so how we’ve done it since is we were either invited by particular institutions, like we’ve been to UCSF or the Palliative Care Fellowship in Toronto, or much larger conferences like the Memorial Sloan Kettering World Hospice Day. Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast. And we send a call out for storytellers.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. We’re partnered with the Hospice Foundation of America.

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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. Ruth: Thank you.

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