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Functional Status and Medicare Costs in the Last 6 Months of LIfe

February 27, 2011

A large proportion of health care costs is incurred towards the end of life. However, very little is known about…

February 22, 2011

Earlier this month, Pew released its latest report on what Americans look for online when they are searching for health…

January 23, 2011

Imagine that you are caring for Ted, a patient in hospice who would like to go from Los Angeles to…

January 13, 2011

“For those of you who haven’t yet heard, I have recently been diagnosed with Stage IV inflammatory breast cancer. This…

January 11, 2011

Congratulations to GeriPal co-founder Eric Widera for winning an early career Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Award for improving care of patients near the…

December 6, 2010

Paula Span has an excellent article out today in the NY Times titled “D.N.R. by Another Name.” In it, she…

August 26, 2010

One out of every four of us will die while residing in a nursing home. For most of us, that…

June 3, 2010

If you asked clinical researchers to describe the most important advances in research methodology over the past generation, many would…

May 21, 2010

Tina Chiu of the VERA Institute of Criminal Justice recently wrote a report It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs,…

April 27, 2010

On my way out of the hospital this evening I ran into a soon-to-be palliative care fellow. Our conversation quickly…