National Hospice and Palliative Care Month
Texas Tech Health Check
English - November 28, 2023 12:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Mental Health higher education health wellness research medical mental health physical health texas medical school Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, a time dedicated to help the public understand the benefit of this type of serious-illness care and the importance of advance care planning. Our guest for this episode is Kelly Klein, M.D., Texas Tech Physicians Department of Family Medicine and associate professor in the TTUHSC School of Medicine. Dr. Klein explains the difference between hospice and palliative care, explains the process, and gives us suggestions on how we can approach this subject of advance care planning with family members.