Rebecca Sudore on Advance Care Planning: The Prepare Trial
May 18, 2017
BREAKING! We are posting this the moment the embargo lifts on Rebecca Sudore’s Prepare trial. As most of you know,…
Churning Patients Through Care Settings at the End Of Life: An Interview with Shi-Yi Wang
May 10, 2017
One-third of the Medicare patients who died in 2011 had 4 or more transitions within last 6 months of life…
Sean Morrison on the Current State of Palliative Care
April 18, 2017
Today’s GeriPal podcast features Sean Morrison, Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician, director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and…
GeriPal Podcast: Laura Hanson on Improving Advanced Dementia Care in Nursing Homes
April 4, 2017
Advance Care Planning · Dementia · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Mental Health
Today’s GeriPal podcast features Laura Hanson, Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Laura…
How Low Should We Go with Blood Pressure in Older Adults? A Podcast with Mark Supiano
February 28, 2017
In this GeriPal Podcast we talk with Dr. Mark A. Supiano about a blood pressure management in older adults in…
Jessica Zitter on Palliative Care in the ICU
February 20, 2017
In this GeriPal Podcast we talk with Dr. Jessica Zitter, a pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine physician. Jessica Zitter…
Nate Goldstein – The Role of Palliative Care in Heart Failure
February 1, 2017
On today’s podcast we interview Nathan Goldstein (@drnategoldstein), Chief of the Division of Palliative Care for Mount Sinai Beth Israel…
Vicki Jackson on Building the Evidence Base for Palliative Care
January 25, 2017
Tremendous amount of exciting new data coming out of one of our nation’s oldest palliative care services: Massachusetts General Hospital…
Palliative care: the long view
December 21, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD In 1976, Balfour Mount published a landmark description of the first palliative care unit, in the Royal…
Rejecting Neutrality – Reducing Burdensome Hospitalizations For Nursing Home Residents
December 19, 2016
Nursing home residents are often sent to the hospital for care that often offers little hope of improving quality of…