GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

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. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. 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. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. And I remember interviewing Captain Sullenberger for my book, and as he was describing accidents like this, he said, “They were flying a plane they were not familiar with, which is a plane without their digital wingman.”

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