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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

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Additionally, among beneficiaries who died between 2006 and 2011, one in eight toggled between a hospital and an SNF during their final year of life, the study found. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.

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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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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

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Summary Transcript Summary There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. Again, those are for lay public definitions. That’s a definition.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

It’s not something you can measure, but it’s definitely something that happens during these interviews. Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. So I think that process is a magic process. We need to remedy that issue, Eric.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. It’s not something you can measure, but it’s definitely something that happens during these interviews. The post Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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 I think that we would kind of enthusiastically say that it is definitely part of our role as palliative care clinicians to have a certain level of primary addiction, medicine, knowledge and competence. I always thought this article came out 2011. Janet: Oh, absolutely. That’s a great question. Nobody uses buprenorphine.