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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

We’re delighted to welcome back Theresa Allison, who is a geriatrician, researcher, and professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I’m doing inpatient geriatrics. Or even when people have, like, adl, total care, ADL needs, they will still occasionally sing. Theresa 00:32 Thank you.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Alex 04:43 When I think about like We Are the GeriPal podcast and you think about geriatric palliative care, like you think nursing homes ought to be the paradigmatic location, an example, an exemplar of like the combination of geriatrics and palliative care. And you see the need. And they’re real comprehensive assessments.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

What this means is we talk a lot about activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living in geriatrics. We found that in older adults with serious illness in the year following widowhood, there was a drop in function of one of your ADL or IDLs, your activities of daily living, or instrumental activities of daily living.

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

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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In-Home Care vs. Assisted Living: Making the Right Choice for Your Loved One

Comfort Home Care

In-Home Care for Seniors In-home care provides professional support services for individuals or couples who need help recovering from an illness, managing a chronic illness, have special needs or a disability, or who simply need help with the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs).

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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Gerontology nursing: holistic care of the older person

The Nurse Break

The primary users of acute hospital services are older people, and yet hardly any hospital nurses would consider themselves geriatric specialists. Geriatric complications and preventable complications. Interventions to reduce ‘geriatric syndromes’ (eg. dr kasia bail. dr kasia bail.

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