Community Health Workers: Key to Reducing Disparities in End-of-Life Care
Despite recent attention, dying in the United States is a complex and often suboptimal experience for patients and providers alike.…
Despite recent attention, dying in the United States is a complex and often suboptimal experience for patients and providers alike.…
Do you have any good ideas on how to get more people to complete advance directives early, re-visit them periodically,…
Bree Johnston, a true believer in geriatrics and palliative care, contributor to GeriPal, and erstwhile colleague at UCSF, recently returned…
This is a guest post by Dr. Ronald Pies in response to this week’s GeriPal post about the removal of…
By now most everyone has heard about the proposed settlement of a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Medicare that would do…
When have advance directives ever been shown to do anything? They were a complete failure in SUPPORT. Study after study…
Dignity Therapy is a brief form of psychotherapy developed by Harvey Chochinov, MD with a goal of conserving a dying…
My dog is dying. When he was diagnosed two months ago with brain lesions, we had an open, practical conversation…
Last week, I started interviewing clinicians who care for frail elders at On Lok Lifewaysas part of a study led…
“When the parent gives to the child, the parent laughs, but when the child gives to the parents, the child…