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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast

Feb 25, 2021

So what exactly does a hospice medical director do?  Why do some choose to become hospice physicians?  What additional training is needed, if any, beyond Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship and boards?  Who should take the new Hospice Medical Director Certification Board Examination?  A recent study in JAGS found...


Feb 18, 2021

Where are we with Alzheimers?  Are we about to see a revolution in how we diagnose and treat it with Amyloid PET scans and the amyloid antibody aducanumab (which is currently on FDA’s desk for approval)?  Or are we still in the same place where there is no meaningfully effective treatment?  Or is it somewhere...


Feb 11, 2021

Nursing home residents have been devastated by COVID.  Somewhere around 40% of deaths from COVID have been among nursing home residents, though they make up just a sliver of the US population.

Prognostication among nursing home residents who have COVID is important for a host of reasons - for counseling patients and...