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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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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. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. 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?