
Lauren Hunt
@laurenhuntrn
Assistant Professor of Nursing @UCSF |Geripal nurse researcher and nurse practitioner.
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25-09-2017 02:10:19
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And really the biggest take away from this article is listen to @mclemoremr. She's been saying this for years! Short cut: just read all her awesome t-shirts during zoom calls. No but seriously, read all her academic and public scholarship. & Rhea Boyd MD, MPH. & Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH #CiteBlackWomen

Also shout out to Faith Fletcher, PhD, MA for putting that article in conversation with this one. These are very much structural problems and we need to really carefully examine the proposed solutions. statnews.com/2021/06/10/nihā¦


And more troublesome features of Aducanumab by Rita Redberg 3) Biogen and FDA worked together on post-hoc analysis to explain why one of the studies showed small benefit and another didnt. And importantly, 3 years later and FDA approval, still no published Phase III study! 3/3


If people canāt go to work because they canāt get child care, and small businesses have to shut down because they canāt find the employees they need, all of a sudden weāre in a downward spiral. We canāt build a 21st-century economy without quality, affordable child care.

Very honored and hugely grateful for mentorship from Alex Smith, MD, Kristine Yaffe Melissa Aldridge and support from Ken Covinsky Krista Lyn Harrison John Boscardin Catherine Gilliss Hai-Yen Sung UCSF School of Nursing

ā¦Joan M Teno MD, MSā© on Hospice economics, venture capital and proposed reforms #hospice #hapc #hpm JAMA Health Forum ā Health Policy, jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-ā¦






via ā¦The New York Timesā© - hospices too understaffed to take new patients. Abandonment everywhere. Profit motive hollowing out workforce bc of moral distress and low wages. nytimes.com/2021/10/16/heaā¦

Almost half (half!!!) of hospice enrollees have dementia. Super duper important article I had the pleasure to work on with Melissa Aldridge Amy Kelley Mount Sinai GeriPal Impact of Comorbid Dementia on Patterns of Hospice Use | Journal of Palliative Medicine liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpā¦

Love this from New Scientist


For Medicare to cover hospice, patients need a 6-month prognosis. I wrote about how that rule disadvantages people with dementia for The Washington Post. (1/8) washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03ā¦

Thank you Emily Harris for writing about this important issue in The Washington Post. Patients with dementia and their families deserve better #hospice care at end of life.


UCSF Geriatrics Krista Lyn Harrison Lauren Hunt Kristine Yaffe Christine Seel Ritchie JAGS Median life expectancy of community-dwelling persons with dementia + severe disability was 1.7āyears; 1/4 died within 7 months. Life expectancy shorter for: age 90+, bedbound, homebound, unintended weight loss, comorbid cancer or depression. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgā¦
