02.16.2024
Clinical Alerts
02.16.2024
The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks
In this GeriPal podcast, BJ Miller and Naomi Saks discuss the forms of suffering encountered in palliative care. This includes how to respond to patient...
02.16.2024
How Hospices Are Innovating Clinical Onboarding
Having peer-support and employee feedback loops are key pieces in some hospices’ onboarding models. Rising demand for hospice amid prolific clinical workforce shortages has providers...
01.24.2024
PALLiative care in ONcology (PALLiON): A cluster-randomised trial investigating the effect of palliative care on the use of anticancer treatment at the end of life
Severe grief is highly distressing and prevalent up to 1-year post-death among people bereaved during the first wave of COVID-19, but no study has assessed...
01.24.2024
Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check
The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. In doing so, it seems to...
01.24.2024
Researchers Link Social Determinants to Pain Management in End-of-Life Care
Food insecurity among older adults is associated with increased dementia risk, poorer memory function, and faster memory decline, new research indicates. This study published in...
12.21.2023
Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider
There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition...
12.21.2023
Alzheimer’s Disease in Black Americans
In this Medscape TV Series, specialists from Indiana University discuss the progressive phases of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), at what point it is most appropriate to...
12.21.2023