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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. Lauren: Thanks for having me.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. So we know these patients are really, really sick. That’s not news to us. Basically vital talk. No difference.