Palliative Care in Rural America: An Interview with Michael Fratkin
April 25, 2017
This weeks GeriPal Podcast is an interview with Michael D. Fratkin, a palliative care clinician and founder of ResolutionCare, a…
Jessica Zitter on Palliative Care in the ICU
February 20, 2017
In this GeriPal Podcast we talk with Dr. Jessica Zitter, a pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine physician. Jessica Zitter…
Nate Goldstein – The Role of Palliative Care in Heart Failure
February 1, 2017
On today’s podcast we interview Nathan Goldstein (@drnategoldstein), Chief of the Division of Palliative Care for Mount Sinai Beth Israel.…
A Podcast with Dame Cicely Saunders
January 22, 2017
Yes, we have a podcast with Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement. No, it’s not one…
How to Incorporate the Results of a New Trial of Palliative Care in Lung and GI Cancers
January 4, 2017
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) A little over 6 years ago, Jennifer Temel and colleagues published a trial of patients with…
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…
Improving Serious Illness Communication By Developing Formulations
December 12, 2016
Clinical formulations, something that few of us outside of mental health providers know about, but can be a critical tool…
Hallelujah: Integrating Primary Palliative Care In The ICU
November 19, 2016
There are a lot of ways one can imagine on how to integrate palliative care into the intensive care unit…
Aligning Quality and Cost Savings Through Home Based Palliative Care
October 31, 2016
by: Timothy Poore (@TimCPoore) More than 90% of non-institutionalized people over the age of 65 in the United States receive…
Palliative Care Consultations in Nursing Homes: It Can (and Should) Be Done
October 3, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) One out of every four people living in the United States will die in a nursing…