GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Journal of Palliative Medicine , 23 (6), [link]. Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera. Heather: Sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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