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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. And so I did all of my research training in health services research, health policy, and then was very grateful to be recruited by Dr. Christine Ritchie when she transitioned here to MGH in September of 2020.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Susan Block had reached out to me and asked if I could contribute something specifically on the experience during the peak months in New York City and COVID Pandemic in 2020. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. And it was the first time I recognized someone.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. When you hear, “We need more money to pay for staff,” you have to say to yourself, “Where’s the money presently going?” Improving nursing home quality. Jasmine: Yes.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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