Article End-of-life care Feeding Nursing home 
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. How high is too high?
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GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Jessie: Exactly.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. ” And, he said, “End of life care.”
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. We wouldn’t dream of not measuring oxygen saturation, yet function, which is highly predictive of outcomes older adults care about, many hospitals hardly measure. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.
Home Care Pulse
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
I mean, I, you know, when I was a fresh nurse, I wasn’t gonna come in there and say, because I had a degree, I knew more than these nursing assistants, who’d worked for 20 years, you know, on a unit. Suddenly people were realizing that, oh, you know, people wanted to stay home. It didn’t exist.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? Eric: Yeah.
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