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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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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. The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Article on buprenorphine in the elderly. I always thought this article came out 2011. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions.

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

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For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money. And it became a terror for me.

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Gender Affirmations and Sexual Orientations – What Nurses NEED to know

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Check out other must-read articles here Shauna has a Diploma in Nursing from Kangan Batman TAFE and more than 8 years’ experience working within various healthcare fields including Geriatric, Community, Oncology, and currently as a civilian nurse contractor in the Defence environment. Firstly, I would like to add it is not a choice.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Yep, for geriatrics? Eric: Yeah.