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

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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. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. No problem.

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

GeriPal

Today’s podcast is part one of a two-part podcast where we spend a day at CMF, a medium security prison located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the hospice unit housed inside its walls. Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf. And it’s an incredibly compelling place to work. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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

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Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. Rehabbed to Death. Caroline: Thanks, Alex.

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

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Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric 00:13 And Alex, who do you have with us today? Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Give too little – it may not work. But before we jump into that topic, Jennifer, do you have a song request for Alex? Jennifer 01:20 I do have a song request for Alex. Saw them play a couple times.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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Family history of febrile seizures. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families. This is an important thing that we talk to families about. And you know what? I’m going to structure this episode like a bit of a question and answer session. A recent immunization.

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