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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks. Eric: What does unpleasant look like?

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. He’s at UCSF, he’s an intensivist.