📌Tuesday, May 7, 8A-3P
Health Services Research Day. Join Georgia CTSA colleagues for symposium and networking. #HSRDay24 #CTSAProgram
🔜Register: eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=…

➡️More info: georgiactsa.org/research/cmdts…

Very important result. Relieving debt is appealing because it is so tangible but this work suggests it may be too downstream or “too little too late” to be helpful.

The folks who want to force women to have children against their will also want to starve those children of a lunch break while engaging them in child labor.

The Supreme Court will hear Grants Pass case:
Can govts arrest people for being homeless?
But who is homeless?

Increasingly, frail older adults who are spending their last years on the street.

My piece in U.S. News Opinion

The OpEd Project UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

usnews.com/news/health-ne…

Emory University receives $3.1 million NIH grant to improve quality of life for people with cystic fibrosis Emory Dept of Family & Preventive Medicine #hapc
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Join us for the 27th Annual Douglas West Memorial Lecture presented by Kimberly S. Johnson, MD, MHS on Monday, May 20th at 5:30 PM.

Please register in advance: bit.ly/DWL2024

“A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty. We needed to coin a phrase because so many of our patients die of the same thing.” nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi…

#FinancialToxicity kills.

💸ACSNews study shows #Medicaldebt is associated with worse health, premature death, & higher mortality at the county level in the US.

🏥Policies to increase access to affordable health care may improve population health.

📍jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Among HF decedents, we found Black pts more likely to get palliative care consults & get consults earlier than white pts. However, Black pts also died on average 10 yrs earlier than white pts. #hapc Emory Dept of Family & Preventive Medicine Modele Ogunniyi, MD, MPH
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In their new Forefront article, Cara L. Wallace, PhD, LMSW, APHSW-C + Stephanie P. Wladkowski, PhD, LMSW, APHSW-C from Cambia Health Fdn discuss how current policy restrictions to enroll and remain on hospice make it difficult for many hospice recipients to receive hospice care for “whatever time remains.” bit.ly/4aFni5Q

Knowing how many folks are dying while homeless and why is key to creating effective public health interventions.

“That is how we work to change things,” says Dr. Margot Kushel MD. “One of the problems with not reporting it is that it makes it harder to act.”

kqed.org/news/11980547/…

Initiating immunotherapy at the end of life is increasing over time, finds cohort study. Patients with higher metastatic burden and who were treated at nonacademic or low-volume facilities had higher odds of receiving end of life-initiated immunotherapy. ja.ma/49498Ky

Just published. Lessons for supporting relational autonomy & well-being in care homes during & outside of a public health emergency: i) accountability & shared purpose ii) use of digital communication technologies iii) appropriate & person-centred visits iv) family-centred care.

Pleased to announce the publication of Dying in the Margins findings paper.

Exploring experiences of living with financial hardship at the end of life using visual methods. Including professional photographs by Margaret Mitchell and photovoice from participants.

➡️doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmq…

Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center Supportive Care Clinic is continuing to expand our focus on patient-centric & family centered mental health care. 🫂 Looking for a BMH therapist (LCSW/LPC) to join our team! 🤝 careers.choa.org/us/en/job/R-21…

#pedpc #hapc #pedsonc #supponc #swphn SPP Palliative Care and End of Life SIG

Can't get Zone of Interest out of my head.

Nothing has expressed that feeling the dissonance, the cognitive/emotional burden required to maintain a hold on a reality that is barely containing the suffering of the world

So much is within ear shot, but we just carry on gardening

.Anjali Grandhige shares QI project using mortality risk predictive index in EPIC to prompt earlier palliative consult

Jane Schell and Natalie Ernecoff discuss ‘the terrible choice’ between hospice and dialysis care to a full house at AAHPM. #hapc2024 Palliative Research Center PittDeptofMed

What are the effects of Georgia's reinsurance waiver? David Anderson of @DukePopHealth, @Egolberstein of UMN School of Public Health & Coleman Drake of Pitt Public Health explore the impacts on Marketplace premiums, costs, and enrollment in Georgia. Read the full study: bit.ly/4amDMQo

.Ali John Zarrabi, MD discussing psychedelic assisted therapy in palliative care Emory Dept of Family & Preventive Medicine #hapc24