Lauren Hunt
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489 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2019
last heard Mar 2023
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I worked for a number of years as a hospice nurse.
And my experience was, you know, I was taking care of all of these patients.
Almost half of my patients had dementia.
I was surprised to learn that when I went in to go in working as a hospice nurse.
And this has actually been...
This is my personal clinical experience, but this is also now just coming out in the literature that almost half the people in hospice have dementia.
So I was taking care of all of these people with dementia, and it just felt like the way the hospice benefit was set up for people with dementia was really not working with them.
And one of the issues that I saw was people with dementia having
really having these long enrollments that then ended with these really disruptive live discharges.
And I worked as a nurse practitioner doing face-to-face visits.
Some people would dread my visits because I would sometimes have to go and tell them that they were no longer eligible for hospice.
And so then we were taking away all of these services.
So this has really driven my interest in this area, my research focusing on this topic.
I was interested in that, you know, as somebody who's working on a similar study and struggling with these issues, why you decided to go with that approach as opposed to parsing out these different outcomes.
Yeah, I was just curious about what your thought process was around that, or if you guys had considered different alternatives.
So you didn't want to get one of the methods, right?
That's one.
Two
So we're struggling with these issues as we speak.
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