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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. By then they usually were out of the hospital actually. Eric 10:25 And who was included?

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

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

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This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Eric: Yeah.