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

GeriPal

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. She had been included. And that was a transformative experience for her.

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

GeriPal

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.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

And, Taylor wrote this song when she was at… She thought she was at the top of her game in 2010. The post GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: I’ve heard that before. Lynn: And, look where she is now.

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

GeriPal

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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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. And it continued for years, but now with the treatment, it’s transitioned. So we’ve gone from 150,000 to 100,000.

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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

GeriPal

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?