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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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And again, I sound like an OG, but I guess I am, railing against and pointing out the need to transform the Medicare benefit and update it since really actively, since 2001 when I was running a program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and we were looking at integrating hospice-like care within mainstream healthcare.

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Minimum Nursing Home Staffing Standards: A Good Start, But Not Quite There

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Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. HPRD—and nurse aides (NAs)—2.45 Several nursing homes have been operating at critically minimal staffing levels for years calling for the necessity of some form of staffing level floor.