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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. But you’ve talked to people who are doing palliative care consults right now and I think have learned a lot about what this looks like in practice in terms of referral processes. Connie 21:45 Right, right.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. I’m not going to talk about finances. It might be a hired caregiver, it might be a social worker in the community or other person who may not identify with that word friend or family. Who are the people?

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? And there’s really no reimbursable system for that. Lauren: Yeah, that was my question. Joan: I mean, we think food is love.