GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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. Anne: Right. Lynn: Great.

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 29, 2023

Take your turn in our first-ever caregiving game, and learn everything you need for each step of the way Your child has a disabling accident. Employers — yours or your loved one’s — may offer caregiver support, such as access to social workers. Experts urge self-care; it helps you be a better caregiver.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

We have Brienne Miner who is a geriatrician and sleep specialist and assistant professor at Yale in geriatrics. Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Brienne: Thank you for having me.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 28, 2023

Sometimes, we are put into a difficult position of communicating information that involves bad news such as, a poor prognosis or clarifying treatment goals to a family member with an advanced illness. Ask: Determine each patient’s preference for receiving prognostic information. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Eric: So we are going to be talking about the importance of engaging family members and caregivers and into the, I don’t want to say care, I just said care too many times, into the care of our patients.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

According to the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society," b y the year 2025, an estimated 7.2 Clearly, Alzheimer's is a challenge many people must face with preparedness by becoming as informed as possible in putting forth their best efforts in ways that benefit themselves as well as meeting needs of those living with the disease.

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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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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 30, 2022

Because of this wide range of needs, geriatric care is among the most challenging specialties to manage. Their goal: to create a patient-centered communication platform that enables stakeholders — such as doctors, nurses, patients, and approved family members — to better coordinate care through shared information.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Carmen: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

JULY 25, 2023

Medical professionals, usually neurologists or geriatric specialists, employ a combination of clinical assessments, medical history review, and imaging tests to reach a diagnosis. Build a care team that includes healthcare professionals, caregivers , therapists, and support services to address various needs and challenges.

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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

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: Here’s our contact information. Eric: [funny blooper] No, that was my first question too, was that my first question? I’m losing track. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Alex: Nursing homes.

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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. I could walk down the hall and get information.

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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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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies Other healthcare professionals Senior and geriatric advisors Miscellaneous other sources Are there places outside of the home that you can think of as potential partnership opportunities? One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Senior and geriatric advisors. Here are some pieces of information that you should include: What do you offer. They want to know that when their patients need to be discharged with home care, that they’ll be in the safe, capable hands of trained caregivers. One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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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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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers’ mental health. J Clin Oncol.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. There is a lot of literature suggesting that standard transplant care doesn’t really meet the needs of these patients and their caregivers.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The STEADI Initiative offers a coordinated approach to implementing the American and British Geriatrics Societies’ Clinical Practice Guidelines for fall prevention. Of the more than 1 in 4 older adults who fall, more than half of those who fall don’t tell their healthcare provider.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex: Yeah, two psychologists talking about psychological issues in palliative care and geriatrics. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I’ll say it.

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 16, 2022

“Confusion, falls, and dizziness are our biggest concerns with many medications, especially with individuals who have heart disease, lung problems, breathing problems, or cognitive impairments,” says Ashley Okray, a physician assistant in geriatric services for Rush University Medical Group in Chicago. Medication complications.

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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. Tell us more about what you mean,” because they give us beautiful information from that.

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Chicago Caregiving

MARCH 9, 2022

TV volume wars can be daunting, but the war to lower the volume can be won with the aid of technology, says Ann Hollander, founder of Options for Aging , a geriatric care management company based in Wilmette. For further information about personal assisted hearing devices, check out: MaxiAids. Illinois Assisted Technology Program.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role. How can we promote this?”

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. ” Alex: So I’m sure there’s some element of difference between what the patient might say and what their caregiver might say about this issue. I can get you guys that information. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. We wanted to give clinicians phrases that they could keep in their back pocket and use when discussing deprescribing with patients and caregivers. ” Ariel: Exactly. That was the target group.

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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’s a Geriatrician Palliative Care Clinician Researcher, also in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, James.

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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“If they are healthy and active, you have some time, though the process still should not be put off too long , as things can change in one’s 70s, 80s, and 90s,” says Christopher D’Agostino, DO, director of geriatric services and chief medical officer at Acension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. 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. Alex, is it okay if I ask?

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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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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 20, 2022

The pandemic has been an especially difficult and confusing time for seniors, says Erika Hutz, DO, a specialist in geriatric and internal medicine at Swedish Medical Group. To stay on top of medical and mental health issues, Blankemeier recommends older adults: Limit social media consumption to avoid taking in too much negative information.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Accessing all of this information will help you to make the most informed decision, as you’ll be able to pinpoint a long-term care facility that has positive reviews and good reports. The post How to Select the Best Long-term Care Facility for Your Elder Parent appeared first on Caregiver Support Services.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. For example, one case that we had not too long ago, one of the hardest cases, nobody was willing to touch him, no caregiver. JAMA Health Forum. And yet they’re dying.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

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