Jan 26, 2023
The Covid epidemic laid bare two major structural issues. First, Black and Latinx persons experienced much higher rates of mortality than other groups. Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast, older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. These are...
Jan 20, 2023
In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. It’s massive with over 600 pages detailing everything from the history of nursing home care in the United States to...
Jan 12, 2023
Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units) have been around for over a quarter of a century. Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term...
Jan 5, 2023
Today’s podcast may be a stretch for our listeners. Please stick with us. No matter what your position on medical aid in dying (I’m ambivalent) or abortion (I’m pro-choice), this is a bioethics podcast, and I hope that we can all agree that the ethical issues at stake deserve a critical re-think. All three of...