Hospital-Based Nurses Help Mitigate COVID-19 in Nursing Homes
May 28, 2020
by: Terry E. Hill, Taejoon Ahn, Rebecca Rozen, Joe Greaves For some of us, the cruelest month was mid-March to…
Grieving at a Distance
April 29, 2020
by: Bridget Blitz, LCSW The death had nothing to do with COVID-19 and the funeral had everything to do with…
Updates in Prognosis for COVID: Is it really true that 88% of patients on ventilators don’t make it?
April 24, 2020
There has been a lot of talk about a new study in JAMA on the outcomes of hospitalized patients in…
Palliative Care In the Era of Covid
April 22, 2020
by: Helen Kao My sister, who is immune-compromised from breast cancer treatment, confided to me a few weeks ago, “I’m…
Catastrophic Thinking and COVID19
April 8, 2020
by: Sarah Stroe I’m going to cut right to the chase- I am not doing well with the pandemic we…
What is the prognosis of COVID-19?
April 6, 2020
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) —— Note: for the most up-to-date information on prognosis in COVID, please go to the GeriPal…
A Letter of Support For You and Thoughts About COVID19
March 13, 2020
Co-published March 13th on GeriPal and Pallimed Dear Hospice and Palliative Care community, We are sad we cannot be together…
GeriPal Blog Series #3 – Home is Where the Heart Is: Why Home-Based Palliative Care is Hard to Scale
March 3, 2020
Providing palliative care to patients in their homes has been an irreplaceable experience that helped me refocus on the humanity…
GeriPal Blog Post #2 – Home is Where the Heart is: Why is Home-Based Palliative Care So Hard
March 2, 2020
There it is again; that sinking feeling. It’s right in my gut, and I can feel the heat rising in…
GeriPal Blog Post Series – Home is Where the Heart Is: The Next Steps for Home-Based Palliative Care
February 28, 2020
Having experienced the value of home-based palliative care (HBPC) and recognizing the challenges it faces as it grows, my elective…