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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. ” And she was saying that because of the message that had come through in this public event, where she, as a person with a diagnosis of dementia, had been invited on an equal basis with everybody else. How about transforming care in healthcare institutions? She had been included.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. I have oncology on the brain. But we have to.

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

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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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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

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Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access. I threw out a lot. Just kind of-.

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

GeriPal

And the goal, even with comfort feeding only, and what was a revelation to me is it was introduced back in 2010 as a response to the recognition that tube feeding was fraught with problems, you know, caused decubitus ulcers, didn’t extend life. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis.

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

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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. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more?