Round-up: End-of-Life Care Topics

• A hospital in Silver Spring, MD is opening up emergency department for older adults. The new department was designed in partnership with Dr. Bill Thomas, a geriatrician who writes the Changing Aging blog.


• San Diego will offer palliative medicine services by phone and internet. As part of a grant from UnitedHealth Group, the Institute for Palliative Medicine, which is located at the San Diego Hospice campus, will run the program.


• Earlier this month, the Washington Post published a piece by Dr. Craig Bowron, a hospitalist who offers his view of the care dying patients receive in U.S. hospitals. Dr. Bowron was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio on Wednesday, along with Dr. Robert Kane, Minnesota Chair in long-term care and aging at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.


• Last year the International Journal of Palliative Care Nursing featured an article by Dr. Pamela van der Riet on palliative care workers' perceptions of nutrition and hydration at the end of life. Yesterday, the International Program of Psycho-Social Health Research conducted an interview with Dr. van der Riet available on podcast.