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

GeriPal

So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. There are clinics. And it continued for years, but now with the treatment, it’s transitioned.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. Alex 23:47 Yeah.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.