Definition Geriatrics Nursing home Patient care 
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
So, it’s definitely possible in sort of that oldest old category that there may be what we call silent aspiration, where someone aspirates, and then they don’t cough or clear their throat, so you actually wouldn’t even know that they’re aspirating. Raele: Yep, they definitely can be. Raele: Yes, definitely.
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GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Thanks for having us.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Sweet Caroline.
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. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director.
GeriPal
JUNE 9, 2022
In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. I was always critical care bound since medical school.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
I think that’s the part that’s still the fundamental foundation of hospice, individualized care plans focusing on patients, families, wants, needs and goals. Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home.
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