Medicare hospice payment reform: not seeing eye to eye
April 10, 2014
By: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Eye-popping numbers from the headlines of the New York Times today – 2% of doctors bill…
#Geriatrics and #Palliative Care Consults via #Twitter!
April 1, 2014
by: @AlexSmithMD Here at GeriPal, we have really tried to push the envelope with the use of social media in geriatrics…
New treatments for hep C: aging patients, unconscionable prices, missing voices
March 12, 2014
Promotional video by Gilead pharmaceuticals, makers of a new drug, urging people to talk to their doctor about treatments “We…
Join the GeriPal & Pallimed party at the AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN 2014 Annual Assembly
March 10, 2014
The 8th annual GeriPal / Pallimed party is back on for this year’s AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN 2014 Annual Assembly. We are…
Dementia Village: Dignified Care in an Experimental Town
March 6, 2014
Tragedies at the end of life come in many shapes and sizes. For Betty, an elderly woman with end stage…
“Honoring Choices” in PACE programs
March 5, 2014
This is the way it went: a group of familiar faces, some family, some professional care providers, gathered around the…
Ramelteon for the prevention of delirium in the hospital
February 23, 2014
About half of the patients that I saw on or palliative care consult service last week were delirious. This is…
Why is Forest Laboratories discontinuing Namenda?
February 20, 2014
Why is Forest Laboratories discontinuing Namenda (memantine HCl) 5 mg and 10 mg tablets on August 15, 2014? Is it because…
“Can’t go home, can’t be admitted” – the emergency room purgatory
January 30, 2014
A 92-year-old woman with a history of stroke comes to an emergency department and is found to have fractures of…
Antibiotics in hospice
January 15, 2014
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Case 1: You have a 94 year old woman with multiple medical problems in hospice who…