GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. And the family members said, okay, now’s the time we need to honor her request. And honestly, this was not a well planned out thing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. That was the initial.

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