Breathing Heartfelt Care
February 14, 2015
by: Kim Evanoski, CMC MPA LMSW Sometimes on the walking trail I get to thinking about my week. The quiet…
The True Art of Medicine: Atul Gawande and The Being Mortal Documentary
February 9, 2015
by: Stephanie E. Rogers, MD @SERogersMD “The two big unfixables are aging and dying…you can’t fix those,” notes physician-writer Dr…
Top 25 Studies in Hospice and Palliative Care (#HPMtop25)
February 5, 2015
A recent article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society published a list of 27 “landmark” peer-reviewed foundational articles…
The Meaning of the Challenge: It’s about More Than Thickened Liquids
February 4, 2015
by: Suzanne Gordon The other day, with much trepidation, I took the Thickened Liquid Challenge. As a well known wimp,…
Pallimed-GeriPal Party at the Annual Assembly of AAHPM-HPNA-SWHPN
January 26, 2015
Time to gather your peers and join fellow readers of Pallimed and GeriPal for our annual party at the Annual…
Working with rather than against speech & swallow therapists #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 23, 2015
By Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Sarah Stranberg, Speech Pathologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Consider the following vignettes, common in…
Do thickened liquids benefit people with swallowing problems? #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 21, 2015
There are a lot of people with swallowing difficulty who are currently getting thickened liquids. For instance, in one study…
The Thickened Liquid Challenge – #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 20, 2015
Our hospice and palliative care team decided this weekend to do the “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This is a simple challenge…
Institutionalized and Interventionalized: the ways we care for the medically fragile
January 17, 2015
by: Diane Stonecipher, RN As a young nurse, some 30 years ago, I worked in a large academic medical center,…
Choosing life: a story of the value of palliative care
January 14, 2015
by Leanne M. Yanni, MD It’s a name. It comes across in our Electronic Health Record as a consult is…