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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Anne: Right. Why are they doing this?

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Dental Care for Seniors: Importance, Challenges, and Solutions

Seasons Hospice

Limited availability of dentists specializing in geriatric care or trained to address the unique oral health needs of older adults can further exacerbate access issues for seniors. Geriatric Dentistry Programs Increasing the number of dentists trained in geriatric dentistry can help meet the unique oral health needs of older adults.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

I don’t know if that’s true, but I just wanted to say that if there is this concern, this builds on what Eric was saying, this trend of equity buying hospices, buying assisted living facilities. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Eric: Here’s our contact information. Eric: BlackRock.