Palliative care in nursing homes: Podcast with Caroline Stephens

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Feb 7, 2018 · 28m

Many in palliative care (including us) have argued that the default care model in nursing homes should be a palliative approach. Revealing indeed, therefore, to talk with nurse researcher Caroline Stephens about her publication in JAGS where she studied palliative care-eligibility and POLST completion for nearly 200 residents of 3 San Francisco area nursing homes, finding: 70% of nursing home residents were palliative care-eligible, but other than 2 patients on hospice, none were receiving consultative palliative care 99% of residents had completed a POLST, but almost no one remembered…