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January 6, 2020
The role of geriatric palliative care in hospitalized older adults
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21548331.2019.1703707Geriatric palliative care requires integrating the disciplines of hospital medicine and palliative care in pursuit of delivering comprehensive, whole-person care to aging patients with serious illnesses.
January 6, 2020
Who Am I to Decide How Long My Ninetysomething Mother Lives?
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/04/13/end-of-life-care-ninetysomething/One Philadelphian’s deeply personal struggle with an aging parent’s end-of-life care.
January 6, 2020
Improving Health Literacy Could Boost Access to Hospice, Palliative Care
https://hospicenews.com/2020/01/02/improving-health-literacy-could-boost-access-to-hospice-palliative-care/A lack of health literacy may pose a barrier to patients receiving hospice or palliative care, including delaying their entry into hospice.
December 30, 2019
Advance care planning in Norwegian nursing homes – limited awareness of the residents’ preferences and values? A qualitative study
https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-019-1378-652% of all deaths in Norway occur in nursing homes. Still advance care planning (ACP) is scarce and heterogeneous. To improve the implementation and practice of […]
December 30, 2019
Dying Well-Informed: The Need for Better Clinical Education Surrounding Facilitating End-of-Life Conversations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913833/The need for improved medical education concerning the way difficult news is delivered and how to initiate end-of-life (EOL) discussions with seriously ill patients and their […]
December 30, 2019
Ten top tips on frailty in general practice
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/clinical-specialties/elderly-care/ten-top-tips-on-frailty-in-general-practice/20039845.articleDr Qian Tan and colleagues present their top tips on managing frailty in primary care.