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GeriPal
MARCH 2, 2023
First, Nisha, a pain and palliative care pharmacist, starts us off with discussing the pharmacology of gabapentin and pregabalin, including common myths like they work on the GABA system (which is weird given the name of the drug). J Am Geriatr Soc. It’s a big episode covering a lot of topics. Oh, we should also plug your podcast.
GeriPal
MAY 26, 2022
So if you remember all these vaccine allocation plans where you had the first tier maybe for much older adults or people in long term care facilities or something, and then the second tier might have been people over 50 or people working in highly exposed jobs. The post Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment?
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Hospice News
AUGUST 18, 2022
Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. million people), a rise from roughly 22% in 2020, according to the state’s Department of Aging.
GeriPal
JANUARY 12, 2023
Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?
GeriPal
JULY 6, 2023
Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked a lot about comprehensive dementia care on the GeriPal podcast but while the evidence is clear that these programs work, the uptake has been limited largely because there hasn’t been a strong financial case for it. laughter] Eric: That was back in 2020. So we had Care Ecosystem.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. And a lot of it centers around communication in that acute care setting. Welcome, Karl.
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