Remove 2006 Remove Community Remove Healthcare Professional Remove Primary Care
article thumbnail

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. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. It’s by choice, just like in the community. Michele: Yep. Alex: Mm-hmm.

Families 132
article thumbnail

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. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. I mean, treatment is really best done in a chronic or continuity setting, whether it’s in a primary care setting or some other.