GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay. We just kind of start to amass these handouts and I would give them to the patient. Is it the patient? Eric: Wait, county 911? Lindsey: Our county 211.

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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.” Everything.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. But we ended up doing, basically, a case series of… I think it was 18 or 20 patients or so.

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