GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.
GeriPal
JUNE 16, 2022
We also discuss Scott’s recently published paper in JAGS that showed that older men with lower urinary tract symptoms have increased risk of developing mobility and activities of daily living (ADL) limitations, perhaps due to greater frailty phenotype. . Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Scott: Yeah.
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
And that is, definitely, one way to approach it. Home health aide at 25 to 50 bucks an hour is, actually, a very inexpensive, and well-worth input for people who need help with ADLs and the like. There’s definitely a move towards standardizing that care as well, in the hospital-at-home side. And it is definitely both.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those. It’s an administrative burden. We measure all of those things.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 27, 2022
James: Definitely not-. Eric: Yeah, this is definitely… If you grew up in the ’80s, this is the slow dancing song. It predicts mortality, it predicts time to walking disability, so time until someone can’t walk across a room, and time to ADL disability. Welcome back to GeriPal, James. Welcome back, Sei.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Like any place else, they don’t use the same operational definition of what we might. But the most striking thing to me was definitely that they would give you different quotes based on who called. And in that, they found it significantly improved ADL function and life space. ” And I said, “Oh. Eric: Okay.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
I definitely do. Eric: What excites me about the med students is when I was a med student, I never heard of ADLs or IDLs and we just gave a talk to first or second year of med students. So that’s one thing I feel some optimism about. And I love this community. And they give off so much energy for me and make me feel so good.
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