Elizabeth Luth's guest appearances

Elizabeth Luth

GeriPal

John Newman

Scott Bauer

BJ Miller

Andy Cohen

Aaron Kesselheim

Louise Aronson

Haider Warraich

Lewis Cohen

Stephanie Rogers

Tim Anderson

Jessica Zitter

Susan Block

John Mills

Katie Fitzgerald

John Nelson

OwlTail

Lauren Hunt

Hospice may not be a great match for all of the care needs of people with dementia, but it sure does help.  And, as often happens, when patients with dementia do not decline as expected, they are too frequently discharged from hospice, an experience that Lauren Hunt and Krista Harrison refer to in an editorial in the  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) as feeling like being “expelled.”   We talk on this week’s podcast with Elizabeth Luth, author of a study in JAGS about her  study of patients in a large New York Hospice with dementia who either are discharged from hospice or live longer than 6 months.  Turns out this happens - brace yourselves - nearly 40% of the time! And we talk with Elizabeth and Lauren Hunt, who helps us contextualize these findings in the setting of larger issues around the fit of hospice for persons with dementia and hospice Medicare policy. (We will add the link to the editorial when it’s uploaded to the JAGS website). -@AlexSmithMD

Hospice may not be a great match for all of the care needs of people with dementia, but it sure does help.  And, as often happens, when patients with dementia do not decline as expected, they are too frequently discharged from hospice, an experience that Lauren Hunt and Krista Harrison refer to in an editorial in the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4094472359761002646/701748163231080933" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS)</a> as feeling like being “expelled.”   We talk on this week’s podcast with Elizabeth Luth, author of a study in JAGS about her <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4094472359761002646/701748163231080933" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> study of patients in a large New York Hospice with dementia</a> who either are discharged from hospice or live longer than 6 months.  Turns out this happens - brace yourselves - nearly 40% of the time! And we talk with Elizabeth and Lauren Hunt, who helps us contextualize these findings in the setting of larger issues around the fit of hospice for persons with dementia and hospice Medicare policy. (We will add the link to the editorial when it’s uploaded to the JAGS website). -@AlexSmithMD

Expelled from Hospice: Podcast with Elizabeth Luth and Lauren Hunt