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.…
Martin Shkreli (aka PalliBro) buys Palliative Care
April 1, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) and Alex Smith (@AlexSmithMD) In other merger and acquisition news today, palliative care was bought today…
GeriPal acquired by Pallimed
April 1, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD, and Eric Widera, @EWidera We know this will come as a surprise to many of our…
Technology Will Transform Care for Older People: Truth or Hype? (Hint: HYPE)
September 7, 2015
I seem to keep hearing stories about how fancy new technologies will transform care for older persons. Living in the…
Atul Gawande, just what the doctor ordered
October 8, 2014
by: Stephanie Rogers @SERogersMD Atul Gawande is expanding the conversation about care at the end of life with his new book,…
What books inspired you to go into #geriatrics or #palliative care?
August 12, 2014
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD I just read a wonderful categorization of books about aging on Lousie Aronson's blog. She categorizes…
Practice Change Leaders for Aging & Health: Jedi Training for Geriatric Professionals
July 2, 2014
This is your big opportunity! The C-Suite is giving you 10 minutes to make a business case for your new…
#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…
Aging 2.0: Why We Should Engage the Innovators, & 11 Start-ups To Consider
November 25, 2013
If you are interested in the intersection between aging and innovation, these certainly are intriguing times. Last Thursday I attended…
On Cooks and Cookbooks: Failure of a Palliative Care Pathway
October 30, 2013
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Wouldn’t it be great if we came up with a standardized approach to caring for hospitalized…