Respecting Choices or penalizing them: do DNR orders affect quality ratings?
March 21, 2016
by: Lena Makaroun, @LenaKMakaroun Since 2010, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has been reporting hospital quality measures…
Pressure Ulcers: An Underappreciated Public Health Issue
March 7, 2016
byJeffrey M Levine MD As a geriatric fellow back in the 1980’s I became intrigued by the wide prevalence of…
Visits by Hospice Professional Staff Matter: Why I believe that More is Better
February 9, 2016
by: Joan M Teno (@JoanMTeno) A high quality hospice provides the best end of life care – something that I…
Potpourri from clinical work IX: BiPaP, Movantik, and Lord Grantham
February 5, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD This is the ninth iteration in the potpourri from clinical work series, where I basically raise…
Reaction to JAMA theme issue on Death, Dying, and End of Life
January 22, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD JAMA just came out with a theme issue subtitled Death, Dying, and End of Life. Here…
Music & Art on the Cover of The Gerontologist
January 6, 2016
The current cover of The Gerontologist features a musician at the local Octoberfest, a yearly block party that celebrates the…
Families caring for families
December 28, 2015
by: Amy Getter, who blogs regularly at hospicediary.com “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”…
PTSD at the end of life
December 17, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I want to draw GeriPal readers attention to a remarkably powerful storyin the current issue of…
A Palliative Care Fellow’s Perspective on Physician-Assisted Death
December 10, 2015
by Danny Cox (@DannyMD) I’ll be honest. When I started my fellowship in palliative care 4 short months ago, I…
The Invisible Hand Reaches into the Exam Room: Ordinary Medicine by Sharon Kaufman (Review)
December 9, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD Alone in the room with your patient, you think you have control over what happens? You…