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Crow's Feet: Life As We AgeA Hospice Doctor Pulls Back The Curtain on A Better Way To GoNovember is a time for gratitude and remembrance — and it's also National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. It's a topic often surrounded by confusion, especially since many of us find it difficult to talk about. But the more we know, the more we can help ourselves and our loved ones — and the less intimidating and scary it becomes. In this episode, you'll hear an interview with a leading hospice and palliative care expert, Dr. Glen Komatsu. Then join Crows Feet hosts Warren Turner and Jan M Flynn in a conversation about what it's been like for them as they've had...2023-11-2235 min
Hear Me Now PodcastCan hospice be saved?An online transcript is available��At the end of last year, The New Yorker and ProPublica documented fraud and mistreatment in some for-profit hospices across the country. The expos�� shouted something that has been whispered for a long while in circles concerned with the care of the dying: hospice needs saving.Begun as a visionary mission run by charities, hospice care has morphed into a 22 billion dollar industry where margin trumps mission. On today's program, host Se��n Collins discusses the state of hospice, its future, and ways to preserve quality of care when caring...2023-08-2448 minHear Me Now PodcastMeditation & the brainAn online transcript is available ��.There's growing evidence that the routine practice of meditation improves quality of life (including relief from anxiety, increased focus, and the mitigation of negative emotions) and that these benefits can be seen after as few as five sessions of meditation. But we didn't really need scientific journals to tell us that: Practitioners of mindfulness meditation have been enjoying the benefits of this natural brain hack for millennia. ��On today's program, host Se��n Collins talks with a pioneering neuroscience researcher who describes what goes on in the brains of people wh...2023-01-2638 minHear Me Now PodcastPreview: Meditation & the brainAn online transcript is available��On the next episode of the HEAR ME NOW Podcast, we'll explore Mindfulness Meditation with three great people who have connections to the practice.��Dr. Michael Posner is a brain researcher who has demonstrated changes in brain tissue of people who meditate AND shown changes in how they deal with stress and anxiety.Patricia Jones has been helping at-risk youth in Los Angeles to meditate for 25 years.And Dr. Glen Komatsu, a hospice and palliative medicine physician in Southern California, teaches Mindfulness Meditation techniques to his colleagues to help...2023-01-1904 min
PediPalEpisode 22: OverfedThe holiday season is ending and boy are we stuffed... with educational and entertaining content about one of pediatric palliative care's more misunderstood and controversial topics: overfeeding. Sarah and Dan round out 2022 talking with skeletal dysplasia expert Ricki Carroll (@RickiCarroll), hospice guru Glen Komatsu, and the inimitable Julie Hauer about those times when our patients are getting too much nutrition and all the problems that can cause. 2022-12-3159 min