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JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We can’t possibly provide enough care to all people with serious illness.

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MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. those experiencing homelessness). Really looking forward to the conversation.

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JULY 11, 2024

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? Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? Sarah 07:12 It’s mostly our decompensated cirrhosis patients. Amy 24:21 For me, I always.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. Eric: That’s pretty impressive.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. Eric: Sorry, I was on mute.

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JUNE 22, 2023

But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. Alex: And are the regulations similar or different in terms of six month required prognosis or less, should the disease take its usual course, or illnesses leading to a short prognosis? He struggled with mental illness, substance use disorder. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. Of these interventions in those individuals. Most of the public wants to have access to treatments and interventions that might help them forestall a devastating illness. So we’re talking about primary care and so I’m a little bit biased here.

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APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness.

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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 is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one. Get to learn some Spanish for this one.

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JULY 20, 2023

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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