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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology?

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

So if you think about 100 patients per year, that you need to have some benchmark after going into business to care for so many terminally ill patients. As somebody who has been part of literally more non-profits than I can remember, non-profit governance structures is a pain in the ass. singing) Ira: Thank you very much.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. 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.