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

GeriPal

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. (singing) Ira: Thank you very much. JAMA Health Forum. ” How is that right?

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Government is not the 51st state. Naheed 00:31 Thanks so much for having me here. Really looking forward to the conversation. Eric 00:34 I’m excited for this.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? They didn’t go to the psych ER again. We spend money in healthcare.