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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. There are also increasing proportion of people in nursing homes who have serious mental illness.

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MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. My voice is nothing special. Anyways, the current study is looking at the impact of music on well being after a new dementia diagnosis. And this has been really interesting because people are like, they just got their diagnosis.

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MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. So we are going to leapfrog over the healthcare system education and we’re going to go straight to the citizens of the world and we’re going to give them the insider tips to how to improve their illness experience.”

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. What does this diagnosis mean to you? You begin with psychosocial assessment and care. Eric: Yeah.

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JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten.

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MARCH 20, 2025

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Why do this?

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APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Or as in Mark Nepo’s poem Adrift, I am so sad and everything is beautiful. Redwing, who is a cancer survivor, shares poems about her experiences with cancer.

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MAY 1, 2025

Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Meredith 17:07 Yes.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess. Like if somebody just drops.

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JULY 7, 2022

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. And in some ways I have this special responsibility in part, along with others, to pass those teachings along to a new generation who may never get to talk to him in the middle of a day on a landline. Haider: Well, first he would never die without a diagnosis. But I certainly did.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Int Med.

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