Just shoot me… No, wait. On second thought, maybe don’t
Perhaps it’s the dementia setting in, but we have been remiss in posting this interesting piece from the Huffington Post on Alzheimer’s, aging, and changing expectations from life. The author, Michael Friedman, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s schools of social work and public health. He writes of his perception of memory loss in [...]
PBS Frontline Report “Facing Death” Brings End of Life Decisions to the Forefront
During Thanksgiving week, PBS aired a special report “Facing Death,” asking the viewer “How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own?” This important broadcast takes viewers into the Mount Sinai Medical Center, one of New York’s biggest hospitals, to shed light on some of the difficult choices [...]
Palliative Care Grand Rounds 2.10
Palliative-SW is very pleased to host the October Palliative Care Grand Rounds (PCGR). As newcomers to this kind of blogging and still learning the ropes since our summer 2010 launch, we can’t think of a better way to get our feet wet. If you’re visiting us for the first time, Palliative-SW is an emerging blog [...]
NBC Nightly News Touts Benefits of Palliative Care
The recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study on palliative care with early diagnosis lung cancer patients has once again garnered the attention of the national media, this time with a September 10, 2010 report by NBC’s Nancy Snyderman on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. The brief NBC segment shows the benefits of [...]
Diane Rehm Show on Palliative Care
Like many media sources in recent weeks, NPR and WAMU 88.5 tuned public radio listeners’ ears to the topic of palliative care August 24, 2010, with a segment on the Diane Rehm Show. Rehm’s report, New Studies in Palliative Care, discussed the value of palliative care in the context of the recent study published in [...]
New York Palliative Care Information Act
The New York Times journalist Jane Brody writes Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End an article published yesterday on the New York Palliative Care Information Act. The new bill, signed by New York governor Patterson, states that New York doctors and nurse practitioners must speak with terminally ill patients about hospice, palliative care and [...]
Spread the Word: Palliative Care Extends Life, Study Finds
A new study was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine and quickly picked up by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many other media outlets. The story will likely lead to saturation for palliative care professionals, and in the wider population break [...]
“The Big C” Premieres Tonight on Showtime
Actress Laura Linney plays “Cathy Jamison” in “The Big C” television show beginning tonight on Showtime. Jamison is a woman with terminal cancer who hides her illness from family and friends and tries to live her life to the fullest. MSW Penny Tafoya writes on Social Workers Speak that “humor may help some people deal with [...]
Palliative Care Grand Rounds for August
An excellent compilation of professional palliative care insights in the blogging world — Palliative Care Ground Rounds 2.8 — is now out for August. This edition is hosted, we’re pleased to say, by a social work blogger. Check it out at Confessions of a Young (Looking) Social Worker. We’re excited to begin exploring social work [...]
The Passing of Dr. Robert Butler
Dr. Robert Butler (83), Pulitzer Prize winning author of Why Survive? Being Old in America (Harper & Row, 1975), died Sunday, July 4, in New York City of acute leukemia. Butler, a psychiatrist, idealist and scholar, contributed much to the field of aging, coining the term “ageism” to describe discrimination against the elderly, and the [...]
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