Melissa Wachterman Podcast: Dialysis and Hospice
May 16, 2018
This is the first in a two part series on Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Chronic Kidney Disease. One of our…
Hypoglycemia in Hospice: A Podcast with Laura Petrillo
February 20, 2018
For this weeks podcast, we talk with Laura Petrillo, lead author of a recent paper published in JAMA IM titled…
Palliative Care, Chronic Pain, and the Opioid Epidemic: GeriPal Podcast with Jessie Merlin
December 5, 2017
I recently had the fortune to hear Dr. Kathy Foley talk about palliative care and the opioid epidemic. First, let…
Implicit Bias and Its Impact in Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care
October 28, 2017
On this week’s podcast we have invited Dr. Kimberly Curseen to talk about how implicit bias influences us as providers…
Palliative care: the long view
December 21, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD In 1976, Balfour Mount published a landmark description of the first palliative care unit, in the Royal…
GeriPal Podcast Episode 1: Bed Alarms
October 12, 2016
Welcome to GeriPal’s innagural podcast episode titled “Bed Alarms”. This is the first in a series of podcasts on all…
When older adults enroll in hospice, symptoms improve
April 19, 2016
By Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Hospice has taken some tough blows in the last few years. Funding cuts. A reporter at…
I’ll Have What She’s Having: Goldilocks and the Hospice Benefit
February 25, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Two reports came out last week that can easily lead one to opposite conclusions about the…
An Update from the Hill: Advancing the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA)
November 5, 2015
Washington D.C. was an exciting place at the end of October. Sure there was a whirlwind deal to shore up…
Flags of Grief
June 19, 2015
by: Genevieve Flagello, LMSW, ASW I am a social worker two years into my career, currently working with veterans on…