Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold
One of my favorite Piece of My Mind essays in JAMA is by Rebecca Sudore, titled, “Can We Agree to…
One of my favorite Piece of My Mind essays in JAMA is by Rebecca Sudore, titled, “Can We Agree to…
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing…
One of our earliest COVID podcasts with Jim Wright and David Grabowski a year ago addressed the early devastating impact…
Nursing home residents have been devastated by COVID. Somewhere around 40% of deaths from COVID have been among nursing home residents,…
Many of you listened to our prior podcast with Jim Wright and David Grabowski about COVID in long term and…
Many in palliative care (including us) have argued that the default care model in nursing homes should be a palliative…
Nursing home residents are often sent to the hospital for care that often offers little hope of improving quality of…
by: Amy Getter, who blogs regularly at hospicediary.com “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”…
Huge numbers of older persons transition from hospitals to the nursing home. Often, an older hospitalized patient needs skilled nursing…
One out of every four of us will die while residing in a nursing home. For most of us, that…