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

Hospice News

According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013. 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.

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

As well as that really, we need to keep caring forward with what Tim Quill and Amy Abernethy talked about in 2013, about really a big part of our specialty is potentiating the primary palliative care that’s done by non-specialists, and how do we embrace that even further to carry our message further? And with that, thanks everybody.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. Now, my SWHPN friends will get mad at me if I got that wrong, but I think it was 2013. The post Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Is that right?

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. The post What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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