Polypharmacy and Deprescribing Super Special: Podcast with Anna Parks, Matthew Growdon, and Mike Steinman
In a new study in JAGS, Matthew Growdon found that the average number of medications people with dementia took in…
We’ve talked a lot before about integrating psychiatry into palliative care (see here and here for two examples). Still, we…
In a new study in JAGS, Matthew Growdon found that the average number of medications people with dementia took in…
Older adults often turn to institutional settings like nursing homes when they need more help than they can get at…
We have made remarkable progress in reducing the use of feeding tubes for patients with advanced dementia.This has been due…
While palliative care most traditionally grew up with a strong association with cancer care and end-of-life care, more and more…
What if there was a tool that could break down a neighborhood’s socioeconomic measures, like income, education, employment and housing…
Harm reduction, as so clearly described by our guest Monica Gandhi on this podcast, began as a public health approach…
In your clinical experience, you may have cared for patients receiving palliative chemotherapy and wondered, hmmm, why is that called…
What is a care manager? In this week’s podcast we talk with Chanee Fabius, who after a personal experience caring for…
A September 2000 New York Times article titled, “Sometimes Saving the Heart Can Mean Losing the Memory” describes a relatively…
Frailty. What the heck is it? Why does it matter? How do we recognize it and if we do recognize it,…