article thumbnail

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

GeriPal

I’m not going to talk about finances. This is not a process where they can see into the future around what complications or challenges may arise, but this is the world that we live in and we can anticipate that. And things that we just don’t think about and we don’t talk about in the hospital, right?

Family 98
article thumbnail

Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

GeriPal

It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. Complicated grief? Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Did they have PTSD? Depression?

article thumbnail

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

Hospital 115