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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho.

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

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. Carla: Thanks so much. Nice to see you all. Welcome back, Ashwin. You just knew it?

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Ep.13: How Becoming an Accredited Organization will Help you Build More Partnerships and Increase Referrals

Home Care Pulse

Caregivers have at least three years of tenure, and nearly one out of four caregivers have worked with a long-term companion for at least five years. So we’re coming to really validate all the things that the caregivers are gonna be providing, not a clinical assessment. Today, almost half of a long-term companion’s.