GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

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? It’s a, it’s a, it’s a past self directing healthcare for a future self.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. Eric 07:25 I guess, Chris, from your perspective.

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