New 📰Annals of Int Med

TLDR: We find the average older adult in traditional Medicare spends 3 weeks per year getting health care, mostly (17 days) ambulatory care like office visits, tests, and treatments.

11% of these adults spent 50+ days per year (!).

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So wonderful to see! #NASEM #seriousillnessscience

Apply to our open #research and #admin positions today & join the amazing CASI team! We welcome applicants interested in #palliativecare , #geriatrics , #seriousillness , & #healthpolicy

mghagingandseriousillness.org/open-positions

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Happening right now: PCRC's Webinar on Concurrent Hospice-Dialysis Care. PCRC Investigator Development Center Presenters: Natalie Ernecoff, PhD and Jane Schell, MD, MHS. Please join! palliativecareresearch.org/research/inves…

👇🏾 Alexis Drutchas, MD (she/her), Amy W. Baughman, MD & Christine Seel Ritchie, three #PublicVoices Fellows with The OpEd Project & MassGeneral Medicine, explain how most of us want to die at home but #Medicare makes it nearly impossible (via Health Affairs).

healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/for…

Great webinar today about reimagining home-based care with Duke-Margolis Patrick Conway Julian Harris MD, MBA and Curtis Cunningham.

Life lessons from ⁦J Randall Curtis⁩ Deep gratitude for all you teach us. #hapcresearch

This will be a fun and highly practical webinar on grant resubmissions. You will learn some great tips!

Very excited to reflect with this august group on social capital in palliative care research. Please join us on Monday Nov 22.

Get important insights from Tamryn Fowler Gray, PhD, RN, MPH and others on the very important issue of supporting family caregivers within our healthcare communities

For #caregivers and #physicians of loved ones with #dementia , we have compiled resources centered around #MGH and #SuffolkCounty . Please feel free to ask questions or comment below with other resources that have been helpful for you!

#Olderadults who are homebound are often socially isolated, have unmet care needs, suffer from high mortality, and are invisible to health systems. How can we provide them with more equitable care? bit.ly/3o0V5RX Christine Seel Ritchie Mongan Institute Johns Hopkins Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology Johns Hopkins Medicine

How can perceptions and (mis)conceptions about #PalliativeCare change through education? Read more in the context of end-stage liver disease ( #ESLD ) management: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32996824/

John Donlan Nneka N. Ufere, MD MSCE Teresa Indriolo @VjacksonJackson Ray Chung Areej El-Jawahri Lara Traeger

Everywhere we turn, we see this crisis--The AMA needs to declare a national mental health emergency statnews.com/2021/10/06/ama… via STAT

Happy Monday! Read about a #PalliativeCare intervention for patients undergoing #HCT . 160 patients from Mass General Brigham were enrolled. Take a look at their symptom management strategies & supportive care medications in the graphs below!

Full article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33824441/

Don't miss today's webinar kicking off our new Implementation Science SIG led by Devon Check and Cara McDermott, PhD, PharmD: 'Implementation Research in Palliative Care: Foundations and Current Applications.' Register here partners.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Come join our growing community!

Findings from this study give pause to relying too heavily on virtual care—Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic With the Prevalence of Homebound Older Adults in the United States, 2011-2020 | Geriatrics | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

An Alzheimer's drug appears promising, but Medicare should wait to cover it | TheHill—advocating for coordinated dementia care programs that support those with dementia and those caring for them thehill.com/opinion/health…