Definition Feeding Medicare 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. Rehabbed to Death.
GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. Raele: Yep, they definitely can be. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults?
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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. Alex: That one’s easy. Why are they doing this?
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? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Is cancer pain really different? Katie: Yep.
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!
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. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago.
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