Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

But through a mixture of trust built on our relationship and exploring her underlying concerns, I think she ultimately listened to my reassurance that she would not lose her Medicare. Her Medicare coverage wasn’t changing, and this truth would bear out for her regardless of her belief. The truth was the truth.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

John Hopkins uses a training model across various fellowship programs, including oncology and geriatrics, that fosters improved conversations and patient care strategies using a palliative care approach.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

To Brian’s point, that we are also integrating chaplains, social workers, it’s not necessarily two psychotherapists. The post Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Michele: So that number’s really growing. Michele: Yeah.

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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. Sarguni: And I think the inadequacies of the Medicare hospice benefit really come into play here because a lot of times people are not sure if they want to get more cancer treatments. That’s the problem.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. So they looked at those that died in 2019, did a year back look at total cost of care that showed at six months, if somebody lives six months on average, those in hospice cost the Medicare trust fund 11% less than those who never enrolled.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. You need to, and, and to say, well, you know, you can talk to the social worker anytime or you can talk to our chaplain anytime. That’s how I see the main difference.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

They’re associated with about 90% of deaths in the Medicare population. Using some of these tools, so physicians and nurse practitioners and social workers can quickly find these goals of conversations as quickly as you found them through your own algorithms. I think you had to be age over 55.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Huge.

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