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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? Sarah 07:12 It’s mostly our decompensated cirrhosis patients. So I was initially getting a lot of post transplant symptom stuff.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Get the hospice referral. So you need to do them in order.

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