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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. They’ve all been laid out for you.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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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: Sure.

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Back Pain Relief for Older Adults

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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, it is necessary that families of older adults take proper care of them.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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We’re going to be talking about default palliative care, a new article that just came out in JAMA this week, co-paired with another article that was published that we did a podcast on last week. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Good to see you.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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I could go on and on, but listen to the podcast instead and for a deeper dive, take a look at the following articles and studies: Gabapentin in the Perioperative setting: Prolonged use of newly prescribed gabapentin after surgery. J Am Geriatr Soc. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Eric: Yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this.