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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Sarguni: Yeah.

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

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If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Kellie: Thank you so much.