Remove Education Remove Government Remove Healthcare Professional Remove Specialization
article thumbnail

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

GeriPal

It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy. 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.

IT 113
article thumbnail

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. And ed imbued in me the concept that physicians are like lifeguards. And I was.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

-@AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

article thumbnail

Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes. Margot: Yes. So they wind up paying more for lower-quality housing.

article thumbnail

Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. Families have really checked up on their elders and really, again, sought to care for their elders in special ways during the pandemic.

article thumbnail

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Diane: Yeah.

article thumbnail

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

” And I could tell you that’s a lot for a government agency to hear. You have one thing that you can change, fix or continue moving forward from here, whether it be from a clinical research education equity perspective around this issue of telehealth, telemedicine for those with serious illness, what would that be?