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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. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t.

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

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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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