Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 4, 2024

Laurie Archbald-Pannone , Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post Spring for Vaccination appeared first on Chicago Caregiving.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Should you stop at “no?” Anne Kelly: Hi there. Nice to be here.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We additionally have a debate/discussion about which outcomes of ACP matter most, including Terri Fried’s commentary in JAGS that caregiver outcomes matter more than goal concordant care (the “holy grail”), completion of advance directives, or changes in health care services use. Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Depression?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This article is sponsored by CHAP. Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. How does age-friendly care benefit hospice providers, aging populations, caregivers and family members? How can we promote this?”

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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Boca Home Care Services

MARCH 6, 2022

In this article, we will briefly touch upon the causes of back pain in senior citizens and will then go on to discuss in detail the measures they can take (apart from and in addition to pharmacologic treatments) to avoid or relieve back pain. Accordingly, there is no systemic treatment or cure for it. Lifestyle Changes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

How do caregivers fit into this? Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome Tamryn Gray, who is an oncology and blood marrow transplant nurse by training and is a palliative care and caregiving researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. How high is too high? Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Melissa: Thank you.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This article is sponsored by Netsmart. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Anthony Spano: I wanted to open with a quick story.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Over like 6,000 patients, 1500 caregivers, huge. One of your articles also I thought was fascinating because in the cancer population, if you look at cancer pain, I think a lot of us think cancer pain, you treat it with neuropathic drugs, medications, opioids. Alex: And you had this fascinating article. Des: Yeah, sure.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. If I was somebody where if I had had to miss work, if I was, say, the sole caregiver for kids and I had dealt with side effects, it might have been more of a sacrifice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. I spent my early time at Brady, and by the way, LaVera, your early article was pivotal for me when I came upon it, when I was working in that setting.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. BJ: Mm-hmm. Naomi: Yeah.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Care Plan helps people navigate healthcare systems not set up for LGBTQ+ or racially diverse caregivers. The Care Plan also serves Black and Brown communities, says Boyd, who, prior to founding The Care Plan, spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at geriatric care facilities in Chicago. This includes the 2.4

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. I’ll say it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 11: I am hopeful that the model of care that we deliver is what our patients and their caregivers want, need and deserve. Eric: That’s why I love reading your articles, always so deep in science. Eric: And when do we expect that article to come out? I’m losing track. And with that, thanks everybody.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. It requires a fight. It’s been going on for many decades now.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. ” Ariel: Exactly.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Yvonne Lindgren article mentioned on podcast. Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. George Janis wrote this article in a law review.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We invited her back along with Alaine to talk about their work around negotiation training, including their work on NegotiAge , an online, AI based training intervention designed to teach negotiation skills to caregivers. . Geriatrics. Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and a T-32 research fellow in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics. He will post like articles that he’s read highlighted with key points noted, absolute treasure. It’s in the title of this article. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, James.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. This paper was published recently in the Journal of American Geriatric Society Lead. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! Respectful disagreement is in short supply these days. OK, I’ll step off my soap box. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

One of the things I’ve been thinking as I listen to this and read articles in the journals and editorials is I wonder what this conversation sounds like to the layperson. And this caregiver saying, “I don’t know how much longer I can do this. And the editors know how to get people drawn into that article.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. There was an article that came out about cancer center advertising. Eric: But one of them is, it looks like a caregiver and a patient both smiling, looking at pictures. ” “Oh, yeah. That’s great. God, that was a while ago. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Eric: Yeah, I can also imagine … So writing a traditional academic journal article is, one, you said it’s formulaic in a way. There’s this beauty that’s there, whether we’re doing geriatrics, infectious disease, palliative care. It’s a story about caregiving. So I’ll stop there.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. Alex: Hope so.

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