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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

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Building partnerships with other providers can help mitigate these barriers, according to Dr. Nathan Goldstein, professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Suzette Porter

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John in 2017 as a supervisor, which is, in essence, an assistant manager to the nurse manager there. Geriatric is my love. Like I said, my great-grandparents raised me, so geriatric is my first love. I obtained a master’s degree. They changed from Ashford to the University of Arizona. I like working with people, working.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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

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J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 The Illegal Marketing Practices by Pharma promoting ineffective: The Neurontin Legacy — Marketing through Misinformation and Manipulation NEJM 2009 Narrative review: the promotion of gabapentin: an analysis of internal industry documents. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults.

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How Hospice Supports Families

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However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. In: Huria A, Balducci L, editors: Geriatric Oncology: Treatment, Assessment, and Management. More and more people are choosing to die at home. References. Ferrell B, Mazanec P. Family Caregivers. Elwert F, Christakis NA.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. 2017 podcast. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.