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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. It’s way more complex than an educational program.

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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? Hope 48:31 Minimal comfort feeding, massive education, and consider what minimal comfort feeding for even moderate dementia might look like. And the family members said, okay, now’s the time we need to honor her request.

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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. And that’s where a lot of hospice referrals happen for these individuals when they’re really declining and they get discharged with, with hospice.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

In a study from Kim published in Pediatrics in 2010, they looked at 526 children with complex febrile seizures. And so briefly, let’s talk about that neurology referral and follow up. You’re providing education and reassurance to a worried family. You can do this.

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