Medicare hospice payment reform: not seeing eye to eye
April 10, 2014
By: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Eye-popping numbers from the headlines of the New York Times today – 2% of doctors bill…
#Geriatrics and #Palliative Care Consults via #Twitter!
April 1, 2014
by: @AlexSmithMD Here at GeriPal, we have really tried to push the envelope with the use of social media in geriatrics…
3 Blogs Waiting to be Started: PediPal, PalliTech, and GeriPal EM
March 24, 2014
Every once and a while Eric and I are contacted by people hoping to start a blog. Sometime people follow…
New treatments for hep C: aging patients, unconscionable prices, missing voices
March 12, 2014
Promotional video by Gilead pharmaceuticals, makers of a new drug, urging people to talk to their doctor about treatments “We…
Join the GeriPal & Pallimed party at the AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN 2014 Annual Assembly
March 10, 2014
The 8th annual GeriPal / Pallimed party is back on for this year’s AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN 2014 Annual Assembly. We are…
Does citalopram help with agitation in Alzheimer disease?
March 7, 2014
Most patients with Alzheimer’s disease will develop neuropsychiatric symptoms, including agitation, at some point in their illness. These symptoms have…
Dementia Village: Dignified Care in an Experimental Town
March 6, 2014
Tragedies at the end of life come in many shapes and sizes. For Betty, an elderly woman with end stage…
“Honoring Choices” in PACE programs
March 5, 2014
This is the way it went: a group of familiar faces, some family, some professional care providers, gathered around the…
Surrogate Decision Making in the Hospital (Or, That Family Member By the Bed is Much More Than a Visitor)
February 26, 2014
An innovative study in JAMA Internal Medicine on surrogate decision making has profound implications for how we take care of…
Tell CMS to protect appropriate palliative care prescribing
February 25, 2014
Attention all Geriatric, Palliative Medicine, and Primary Care Providers: Act now to prevent the adoption of strict, punitive regulations impacting…