Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life. Alex 08:10 They were pretty short in nursing homes, so most people think, oh, I got to save in case I have to go into a nursing home. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Ruth: Sure.

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