Palliative care is not only for the end of life-it helps people with serious illness live well from diagnosis. Read more about how Remo Health is building a much needed neuropalliative care model to address the unique needs of people with dementia

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New work from our Dementia, Hospice & Policy team: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37669483/

Led by Dr. Melissa Aldridge Mount Sinai GeriPal, we found hospice-enrolled community dwelling people with dementia generated lower costs for family and for Medicare vs those not enrolled

Dr. Krista Harrison (Krista Lyn Harrison) first authored a perspective in the NEJM titled, 'Toward Gerineuropalliative Care for Patients with Dementia.' Co-authors include Nicole Boyd and Dr. Christine Ritchie (@RitchieCS). #geriatrics #hpm nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Gr8 NEJM Perspective by Krista Lyn Harrison Christine Seel Ritchie 'Gerineuropalliative dementia care'...would combine existing field of neuropalliative care with attention to geriatric syndromes & would apply the combined gerineuropalliative care principles to dementia

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1 in 3 spouses of persons with dementia experienced frequent loneliness. While spouses with low-quality relationships have more loneliness at baseline, couples with higher marital quality had steeper increase in loneliness when spouse develops dementia agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Saying health disparities are rooted not just in health care but in income, policing, education and the environment, National Academies recommends new federal body to oversee health equity work in all agencies. My story: statnews.com/2023/07/27/hea…

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A commentary on #socialmedia and #grief --now posted on social media. A strange world in which we live, but #grief has never changed, just adapted to the ways we express ourselves in each generation.

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Important research on rel’ship btwn state Medicaid policies and maternal health disparities for immigrant women statnews.com/2023/07/18/med…

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Among the many benefits of having women in leadership is that exposure to “powerful” women increases the probability of men hiring women into pathways to leadership.

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Journal editors (and reviewers) should take note of Michelle Ko's concrete steps to weed out low quality (and outright bad/wrong) literature trying to address health equity and bring to light high quality research.
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Drs. Lingsheng, Liz Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH, MPhil, MS, and Amy Rosenwohl-Mack published a graphic medicine piece in Annals of Int Med based on a qualitative study on moral distress and coping practices among clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/G2…

Please join the Dementia Care Aware initiative’s next Zoom webinar, “Implementing a Brain Health Plan -- Evidence and Strategies” on July 21, 2023, from 12 to 1 p.m. Learn more: geriatrics.ucsf.edu/news/join-deme… #geriatrics #ucsf @ucsf

Hospital cultures should be considered in the development and implementation of hospital policies and interventions. A new study by Medical Cultures Lab member @lizdzeng et al. explores how hospital culture might influence intensity of end-of-life care. bit.ly/3NWddJu

My new paper in JAMA Internal Medicine on hospital cultures and its influence intensity of end-of-life care. This is deeply meaningful to me as its my last paper with J Randall Curtis ❤️ Grateful to mentors Dan Dohan Christine Seel Ritchie jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Why do so many hospitalized patients get high intensity care at the end of life even when harmful instead of the palliative care they really need? Important study shows deep seated cultural issues of hospital culture need to be addressed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Congratulations Dr. Todd James (Todd James) on his promotion to Full Professor status!

This week we are delighted to welcome Dr. James Deardorff (James Deardorff) to the UC San Francisco Division of Geriatrics faculty! Learn more about Dr. Deardorff here: geriatrics.ucsf.edu/news/welcome-d…