Hospice News
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
We’ve had a lot of success with people gravitating to these events, because we’re always looking for someone else to partner with, whether it’s talking about advance directives, living wills and those types of things. We kind of piggyback on that to then engage as many people as possible. We’ve really leaned into those partnerships.”
Hospice News
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Collaborations with mental health organizations that touch these patients’ lives will be pivotal for those who could potentially reach palliative care. Palliative care providers have opportunities to bridge gaps of unmet needs among patients who have serious mental illnesses (SMIs) and their families.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Older adults who only have [a power of attorney for health care] or only have [a living will)] significantly differed in racial identity, [socio-economic status] and health,” the researchers noted. Black populations have long-faced a history of racism that has affected the ways they access and receive care, according to a recent study.
Hospice News
MAY 17, 2023
When advanced care planning first came out, it was really this transactional process of completing an advance directive, which includes designating a health care surrogate and completing a living will. It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. So what do we do about it? What’s wrong with the “pictures of hands clasping each other” as our palliative care meme?
Hospice News
JANUARY 22, 2024
If they are Jewish Orthodox, for example, they have a holographic living will in which a rabbi is named to be consulted when making health care decisions. Case in point, roughly 38% of adults nationwide conflated hospice with palliative in a March 2022 study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Tim 01:40 Wonderful to be here. Thanks for having me. Alex 01:42 And we’re delighted to welcome from my home state of Michigan, Joe Dixon, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at Trinity Health. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Joe 01:54 Thanks so much.
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