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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

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A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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

GeriPal

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.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

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Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Ramona Rhodes, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doctor, and member of the Board of Directors for the American Geriatric Society.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho. She created TimeSlips which we talk about in our podcast. Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

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There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Eric: So it doesn’t just help the patient but it helps everybody around the patient too importantly, like in nursing homes. Lona: Absolutely. Eric: Can I touch on the last study? Eric: That’s helpful.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. It’s not something you can measure, but it’s definitely something that happens during these interviews. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin.