Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones
September 14, 2023
Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about…
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): A Podcast with Dan Drake and Jay Luxenberg
July 8, 2021
Older adults often turn to institutional settings like nursing homes when they need more help than they can get at…
GeriPal Blog Series #3 – Home is Where the Heart Is: Why Home-Based Palliative Care is Hard to Scale
March 3, 2020
Providing palliative care to patients in their homes has been an irreplaceable experience that helped me refocus on the humanity…
GeriPal Blog Post #2 – Home is Where the Heart is: Why is Home-Based Palliative Care So Hard
March 2, 2020
There it is again; that sinking feeling. It’s right in my gut, and I can feel the heat rising in…
GeriPal Blog Post Series – Home is Where the Heart Is: The Next Steps for Home-Based Palliative Care
February 28, 2020
Having experienced the value of home-based palliative care (HBPC) and recognizing the challenges it faces as it grows, my elective…
Home-based Palliative Care: Podcast with Brook Calton and Grant Smith
February 27, 2020
Home-based palliative care is booming. And with the growth of home-based palliative care come unique struggles and challenges: how can…
Communicating with Home Health: Podcast with Cynthia Boyd
May 2, 2018
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Cynthia Boyd, Professor of Medicine and Geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University School…
House Calls are Old-School
January 21, 2017
Dr. Heidmann on the way to an apointment. This sunny Saturday morning, I drove to a couple of house calls…
Gifts for Seniors: Holidays 2014
December 15, 2014
As stores and the internet light up with gift ideas in time for Christmas, you may have a senior or…
Finding dental care for people confined to home
November 28, 2014
Have you ever had a patient at home who was in need of dental care? Perhaps they were receiving hospice…