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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 the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. 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 we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? And we’ll say that we will link to an article that Hope and Thaddeus and others, I think Tim Quill was on there, wrote in journal, Pain and symptom Management, I think it was. 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

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. It’s not just about physical symptom management. That was the initial. English or spanish speakers.