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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Carmen: Yeah.

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Which Home Care Agency Is Right for You?

Comfort Home Care

No two patients are alike – and a one-size-fits-all healthcare solution doesn’t exist either. In most home-health care cases, clients require some type of assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs). At a minimum, your home-health aide should be a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or a Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA).

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4 Ways Home Health Agencies Can Benefit Seniors

Comfort Home Care

Here are a few ways home healthcare services can improve the lives of older adults. At Comfort Home Care, our certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and geriatric nursing assistants (GNAs) provide highly skilled one-on-one home care and assistance. 1: Maintaining Connection & Activity. 4: Maintaining Independence.

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Gerontology nursing: holistic care of the older person

The Nurse Break

I am passionate about providing excellent healthcare to older people while they are in acute care hospitals, and that is where my clinical and research focus align. The primary users of acute hospital services are older people, and yet hardly any hospital nurses would consider themselves geriatric specialists. dr kasia bail.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

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She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

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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.

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