Latest Palliative Podcast Episodes
Inflammation: What it is, How It Causes Disease, and How You Can Decrease It
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - April 26, 2024 20:00 - 49 minutesInflammation can be a killer – how do we combat it? Together, diseases related to chronic inflammation account for 50% of deaths worldwide. The relation among obesity, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome is an interrelated mesh that can lead to an early death if we do not learn how to manage c...
Episode 55: Samantha Giles
On the Marie Curie Couch - April 24, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsActress Samantha Giles sits down with Marie Curie bereavement expert Jason Davidson to explore her experiences of death and grief. If you'd prefer, you can read a full transcript of the episode. On the Marie Curie Couch aims to open up conversations about death, break down the taboo and encou...
Judi Lund Person: Unleashed
TCN Talks - April 23, 2024 17:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsJudi Lund Person, former vice president of regulatory and compliance at NHPCO, shares her journey into the hospice industry and her passion for ensuring patients and families receive the care they need and want. Judi emphasizes the importance of addressing bad hospice care and uncovering fraud ...
Grief Groceries - Care Packages for the Bereaved
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - April 19, 2024 22:00 - 34 minutesGrief groceries are a meaningful and practical way to extend support to those navigating the challenging path of grief. The next time a loved one is going through a difficult time, skip the “let me know what I can do” offer and drop off grief groceries instead. Provide comfort and emotional supp...
A Command Performant(s): RAC Audits on the Rise
Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond - April 17, 2024 16:25 - 10 minutesRecovery Audit Contractors (RACs) have played a relatively limited role in the hospice space, often overshadowed by UPICs, SMRCs, and Center for Program Integrity audits. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Bryan Nowicki talk about a recent wave of record requests issued by a RAC...
Deaths by Firearm Violence: How Attention to Safety Can Make a Big Difference
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - April 12, 2024 13:00 - 27 minutesIn 2020, firearms became the leading cause of death for American children and teens in the United States, overtaking motor vehicle accidents. Firearm violence - which includes accidental death related to firearms, suicide, mass shootings, and homicides - has become a health crisis. Many of these...
Top News Stories of the Month, March 2024
TCN Talks - April 09, 2024 15:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this week’s podcast Mark Cohen joins me once more for the Top News Stories for the prior month. This is a new format as Mark has retired from publishing the Hospice News Today as he has transitioned it to Cordt Kassner and the daily publication has been rebranded as Hospice and Palliative Ca...
How to Cope When a Complicated Parent Dies
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - April 05, 2024 21:00 - 45 minutesParental death in midlife may result in lingering feelings of loneliness, feeling alone on the earth for the first time in their lives. Their death can bring back memories of former losses, unresolved conflicts, and doubts about life’s purpose. Knowing that we are not alone as we struggle with t...
Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - April 04, 2024 06:45 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn 1983, a 25 year old Nancy Cruzan was thrown from her car while driving home in Missouri, landing in a water filled ditch. She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. In 1988, Cruzan’s parents ...
The TPE Carousel. . . Around and Around We Go
Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond - April 03, 2024 19:34 - 15 minutesHospice Targeted Probe and Educate reviews (TPEs) continue to be initiated all over the country. That means it’s time to check in with Husch Blackwell's Hospice team on the latest developments. In this episode, Meg Pekarske and Bryan Nowicki discuss a new TPE topic and describe both the time-tes...
Lessons Learned with Samira K. Beckwith, one of the matriarchs of community-based Hospice
TCN Talks - April 01, 2024 18:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhen Samira K. Beckwith graces our mic, you're not just hearing from a healthcare visionary; you're learning from a powerhouse who transformed her battle with Hodgkin’s disease into a beacon of hope for hospice and palliative care. Her journey, shaped by personal trials and the work of legends l...
Episode 35: Take-Home Points
PediPal - April 01, 2024 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPediPal goes on the road! Dan brings his microphone to Phoenix, AZ, for the 2024 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, ambushing unsuspecting guests with that classic PediPal question, "What are your take-home points?" Sarah, unable to attend the conference, shares her take-homes f...
Are You Prepared to Die? Get Ideas for Your Advance Care Planning
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - March 28, 2024 15:00 - 45 minutesWhen we plan for our inevitable death, we can make our end of life easier for our loved ones. Life is hard, loss is hard, grief is hard. A final gift we can offer those who love us is to have our paperwork in order so they do not have to expend their energy on these details. Learn what kinds of...
PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - March 28, 2024 06:45 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsOne marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample size...
How health equity makes care better for everyone
HealthChangers - March 27, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOn this episode of the HealthChangers podcast, Michael Ann Benchoff, assistant director of health equity programs at Regence, talks about why the fight for health equity is so important. We also discussed the work that Regence is doing to make the health care system more inclusive and effective ...
Episode 54: Tayshan Hayden-Smith
On the Marie Curie Couch - March 27, 2024 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTV presenter, activist and footballer Tayshan Hayden-Smith sits down with Marie Curie bereavement expert Jason Davidson to explore his experiences of death and grief. If you'd prefer, you can read a full transcript of the episode. On the Marie Curie Couch aims to open up conversations about d...
Eastern Ontario Caregiver Expo 2024
Hospice Quinte: Changing Lives Podcast - March 25, 2024 13:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCaregivers work tirelessly to ensure the person they’re caring for is as safe and healthy as they can make them. As a result, nearly all of their energy gets put into providing care with the resources they’ve been given, and they don’t necessarily have the time to research some goods or services...
Improving Care Through Predictive Modeling and Other Data Solutions
Transcending Home Care - March 24, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow can home health and hospice organizations apply data to provide better patient care? What if data-driven predictive modeling could define with a high degree of certainty that a patient was on the verge of hospitalization … or pinpoint when a patient would die? What do future opportunities l...
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICD) and Things You Need to Know at End of Life
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - March 23, 2024 02:00 - 39 minutesImplantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) are a technology that many people have, especially if they survived cardiac arrest or have a heart condition that causes dangerous heart rhythms. ICDs are a great technology, but at some point a decision may need to be made about continued use or tu...
Electronic Frailty Indexes: Kate Callahan, Ariela Orkaby, & Dae Kim
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - March 21, 2024 06:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsWhat is frailty? Kate Callahan relates a clear metaphor on today’s podcast. A frail person is like an origami boat: fine in still water, but can’t withstand a breeze, or waves. Fundamentally, frailty is about vulnerability to stress. In 2021 we talked with Linda Fried about phenotypic frailt...
From Substitution Competition to Collaboration: Shifting our mindset from Substitution Competition to Collaboration Opportunities
TCN Talks - March 18, 2024 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDiscover the transformative power of hospice and palliative care as Dr. Katy Lanz, a pioneer in the field, joins me, Chris Comeaux, for a riveting conversation on the industry's future. As the founder of TopSite Partners, Dr. Lanz offers her wealth of knowledge, taking us through the industry's ...
What is a Death Doula?
Hospice Quinte: Changing Lives Podcast - March 18, 2024 13:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMany people have heard of doulas in the context of giving birth, but what is a death doula? On this week’s episode of Changing Lives, we’ll be going over Death Doulas. What are they, and how do they help a person who is dying? Support the show Listen on 91x FM You can listen to episodes of "C...
You Can't Appease an Aggressor; How to Handle Aggressive Situations
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - March 16, 2024 02:00 - 29 minutesLearn Healthy Strategies to Deal with a Person with Anger Issues Are you overwhelmed by the political climate, difficult people in healthcare, or even the person riding your bumper on the roadway? We take a look at WWII to learn why you can’t appease an aggressor, but also explore techniques to ...
Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - March 14, 2024 06:45 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsAlmost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. The rules of the challenge were simple: fluids must b...
A Fond Farewell: Musings on the End of the Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve-In Demonstration
Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond - March 13, 2024 18:55 - 35 minutesIt came as a surprise to our team when we learned that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was ending the hospice component of Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) on December 31, 2024. Upon learning this, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske contacted Chris Comeaux, the president and CE...
How to Explain Death to a Child
Hospice Quinte: Changing Lives Podcast - March 11, 2024 13:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDeath can sometimes be a difficult concept to understand, especially for a child. Given there are instances where adults can sometimes reject or avoid the death of someone close to them, it can be challenging for a child to fully grasp the concept. In this episode of Changing Lives, we will go ...
How to Preserve a Life through Digital Memorials
Everyone Dies (Every1Dies) - March 08, 2024 21:00 - 53 minutesFind connection and community through digital preservation and memorialization People are more frequently choosing cremation over burial and in doing so, raises the question of memorialization. Digital memorials are the current answer to how to keep our memory alive without a gravesite to visit....
End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast - March 07, 2024 07:45 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas (like this NY Times article from 2021). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pa...
Top News Stories of the Month February 2024
TCN Talks - March 06, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsNavigating the complexities of hospice and palliative care takes a special blend of compassion and knowledge. Join us as Cordt Kassner, a true pioneer with a career spanning over a quarter of a century, shares his experiential treasure trove. Cordt, now at the helm of Hospice and Palliative Ca...
Negative Coping Strategies to Avoid After a Death
Hospice Quinte: Changing Lives Podcast - March 04, 2024 14:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA person’s reaction to death depends on a multitude of factors. While there is no right way to mourn the death of someone you know, there can be certain actions a person could take in an attempt to cope that could be harmful to themselves or those around them. On this week’s episode of Changin...
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