Daily Nurse

MARCH 25, 2024

This certification equips you with the necessary information to care for older patients’ mental, physical, and psychosocial health. CGN coursework explores care planning for the elderly, geriatric nursing principles, medication management, and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

“His clinical expertise, compassion and leadership abilities will be invaluable in guiding our clinical teams so that Treasure Coast Hospice can continue to build upon its legacy of providing comfort and quality end-of-life care to our community.” Crouch brings more than 30 years of health care leadership experience to the role.

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Comfort Home Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Certified Nursing Assistants, Geriatric Nursing Assistants, Home Health Aide Working closely with your professional medical team are Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), Geriatric Nursing Assistants (GNAs), or Home Health Aides (HHAs). They are well-trained professionals who are skilled in caring for older adults.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

The goal of hospice care is not to cure the patient, but rather to improve the quality of life during this difficult time. Hospice services can be provided at home or in inpatient facilities with staff experienced in end-of-life care.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 31, 2022

Once Ana graduated and moved back to Phoenix to work in Children’s Behavioral Health, she was quickly reminded of her love for Geriatrics and Hospice. Ana chose Hospice Promise for the commitment we make to our community to provide a positive difference in end-of-life care.

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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: Sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. And I was interested in intensity of end-of-life care and differences in intensity of end-of-life care. Liz: Right.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

I think as palliative care continues to grow, we need to shine a light on this because it’s needed not just for extended end-of-life care, which is how we’ve traditionally known it in the home health and hospice world, to true chronic disease management and holistic care of members, patients, residents in their homes.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. Family perspectives on end-of-life care at the last place of care. Association between the Medicare hospice benefit and health care utilization and costs for patients with poor prognosis cancer. Kris A, Cherlin E, Prigerson H, et al. 2006; 14 (3): 264-269. 2004; 291 (1): 88-93.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college. Maintaining a focus on the future.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Hartford Foundation with a grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the Catholic Health Care Hospitals of America and the American Hospital Association. ” They were able to put together a set of evidence-based practices called the 4Ms Framework for Developing Age-Friendly Care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I think for a long time, we know that across the spectrum of our clinicians, caring for patients, serious illness, both in oncology and outside of oncology, there continues to be a misperception equating palliative care with just end of life care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics. Welcome back.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a little bit of teaching about end of life care. And for example, there’s still in most medical schools no required rotation in palliative care. I think there’s data that shows that there have been improvements in end of life care. And there was some teaching about pain.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. It’s taken a lot of time and work together, but it’s going to be worth it for the patients,” said Schwartz. “We

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And I’ve always looked to try to help people spiritually to better themselves through spirituality, and who more needs help than in the end of life care. Eric: Before we end up, and I really appreciate the time that you’re giving us. So that’s when I jumped into this all the way. Gerald: Yes, they do.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

My entire career has been taken care of in primary hospitalists and palliative underserved populations, either dual-eligible, Medicaid, and Medicare or community health centers, so I’ve always worked in that environment. Eric: To all of our listeners, thank you for your support of the podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We have Sarah Nouri, who is a palliative care doc and researcher at UCSF. Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. Van Scoy who is a pulmonary critical care advance care planning researcher at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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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 was on service and I had a geriatrics fellow and a palliative care fellow. So I got the white board and I wrote advance care planning. Rebecca: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You said something about your research in this area this morning pertaining to views of that term, end of life or end-of-life care. Alex: Well, let me just ask one more, sticking with this, Karen. I wonder if you could say a little bit more about that. Karen: Sure.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

She’s a medical anthropologist with an interest in culture of end of life care, among other things, and she has a book that is out called Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Mara. Mara: Thanks for having me. Eric: So, this is an interesting podcast, Alex. Alex: Please.

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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. There’s end of life care needs.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

How did you get interested in end-of-life care, palliative care, and some of the work around dignity that you are really well known for? The post Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When you think about this and this toolkit, are there some really basic marketing ideas or tips that you have when we think about messaging, advance care planning, hospice or palliative care. In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. Most of them thought it was end-of-life care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

In this PONDER-ICU trial, we didn’t rely on palliative care specialists; we engaged bedside clinicians to have ICU communication and adhere to guidelines. Eric: Sorry to all of our listeners for me being out of it, because we got home very late last night; but hopefully it wasn’t too bad, and thank you for all your support.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. Yep, for geriatrics? We’re available, palliative care.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

This really is patients with serious chronic life limiting illness who are hospitalized. Eric: How’d you define serious chronic life limiting? Bob: We used a set of nine conditions that have been used by the Dartmouth Atlas Project to study end of life care. I think you had to be age over 55.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: We are so fortunate to be joined by one of my former mentors who I’ve known for 20 years, Holly Prigerson, who is now Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical School and Professor of Sociology and Medicine and Director of the Center for Research on End Of Life Care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

I look at the leadership team, so the administrator, the DON, the medical director, the director of staff development, the infection preventionist now, the whole team because we’re running mini hospitals and there’s no way that the administrator understands geriatric medicine. I’m glad that Alice brought it up.

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