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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. It’s by choice, just like in the community. Michele: Yep. Eric: Mm-hmm. That’s one.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.