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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. It happened to my mother. Louise, what happened to your mom? That’s why we did it.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program. And that’s more standard.

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