GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? How do caregivers fit into this?

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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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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. Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. ” Ariel: Exactly.

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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. Alex: Nursing homes. 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: BlackRock.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. 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!

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You may also identify reports published by governing bodies and potential third parties (such as nursing home abuse lawyers ) if a facility has been investigated. 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

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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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

You’re getting them with a little teeny slice of their information and you’re just trying to build some willingness for them to hear more. In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. There are 86-year-olds living in a nursing home with frailty, who I say, “I’m a geriatrician.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. That dawned on me.

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