Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing…
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing…
A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that…
There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It’s not…
My mom is an Asian woman in her 70s with osteoporosis. She tried an oral bisphosphonate and had horrible esophagitis. …
This week many of our listeners will gather for the annual American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) &…
In prior podcasts we talked about racism and COVID, lack of diversity in the palliative care workforce, racial and ethnic…
Patients with end stage liver disease and decompensated cirrhosis have an average life expectancy of 2 years without transplant. Outcomes…
Three months ago we did a podcast with Randy Curits about his recent diagnosis of ALS in March and what…
It’s GeriPal’s 200th episode. Yup, we started the podcast in 2016 and over the years we have grown from basically…
The great resignation is upon us. One in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. Geriatrics…