Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 29, 2023

Step One Learn about what’s going on Start with a clear understanding of your loved one’s medical condition and care team, says Julie Fohrman, a gerontologist who founded North Shore Geriatric Care Management in Lake Forest. Talk to their healthcare providers, research conditions, and seek support groups.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Strengthening and protecting the spine can help reduce falls, which often become a traumatic event for older adults. “Monitoring geriatric conditions and symptoms can aid in the prevention of falls,” she says, “while assessing nutrition could assist with promotion quality of life.”

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Chicago Caregiving

JUNE 16, 2022

Adults age 65 and older visit the emergency department three times more often for medication-related adverse events than younger adults do, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . Taking too many medications increases the risk for adverse drug reactions — a particularly acute problem for older adults.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The NCOA provides a wealth of resources related to planning falls prevention events and provides tool kits for community engagement and team collaboration. The STEADI Initiative offers a coordinated approach to implementing the American and British Geriatrics Societies’ Clinical Practice Guidelines for fall prevention.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. We provide a $300 stipend for like food and marketing or whatever we provide all the materials needed for the event. And usually we want like 20 to 50 people to come to one of our group events. Sarah: Thank you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. But patients have reported that they still recounted that event as something that was quite transformative and beneficial for them as well. Most participants are White and well-resourced.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. 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.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

This church member who participated in the board meetings, events, and more was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and shortly after, passed. Admiral Senn later was admitted and ultimately passed in the local VA hospital. His third exposure to death and dying was with a very active member of the church.

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Chicago Caregiving

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cold weather health risks “As we age and experience the changes associated with aging, it leaves us more vulnerable to cold,” says Ryan Bartkus, MD, a geriatric medicine specialist with Ascension Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village. Let’s start with the cold. The layer of heat-preserving fat below the skin thins out as people age.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. Good to see you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then. The post The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

She’s also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), where she serves as Co-Director of the HIGN Scholars Program, an Affiliate Associate Professor at Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, and a Volunteer Associate Professor for the State University of Haiti.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Try to avoid visiting during days when events are taking place, as you need to see a more natural day-to-day environment to gain insight into the normal operations in the facility. You may choose to visit during the daytime and see how staff members interact with the residents and one another. Final Thoughts.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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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. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Eric: That’s helpful. Tell me about this study.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Because those experiments show that the actor being targeted, lipids for example, is part of the causal pathway to an undesired event. I do think that creates a little bit of disquiet where the borders between the expert physicians will decide what is a disease, freed of all conflicts, simply is a historical event. Jason: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

But I think it’s artificial, as we’ve already shown in this conversation, to talk about that as a isolated event. The post Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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. So these are really relevant outcome events. James: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

The post Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. ” Right? Eric: Thank you Archstone Foundation for continuing support and to all of our listeners.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. It’s these activities that you’re talking about, these goals, these trips, these events, these meaningful activities. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. The post Palliative Rehab?!?:

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

You write a scholarly article in geriatrics, it’s not dissimilar. And I think when groups like JAMA or JAG or the leaders of the American Geriatric Society say we have to call everyone older adult, they’re doing a disservice to all of us. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. The post Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. So, it’s exactly what I have in the chart.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. And we’ve been really private of doing the research of really doing the deeper thinking about what the loss event happens during the loss event and how we can impact how grief is experienced later. And we don’t talk about it as much.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Eric: That’s helpful. Tell me about this study.

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The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Check out other must-read articles here Shauna has a Diploma in Nursing from Kangan Batman TAFE and more than 8 years’ experience working within various healthcare fields including Geriatric, Community, Oncology, and currently as a civilian nurse contractor in the Defence environment. The old nature or nurture argument.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

The post Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. But for some of us, it might be an I, vow relationship to a connection with beauty, nature, the waves, the sea turtles, the lava.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Yep, for geriatrics? Alex: … pre-operative assessment? We’re available, palliative care. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

” And you miss this opportunity to say, “Hey, this is a major event in this person’s life.” The post Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

” But we had a hunch that turned out to be right that by the time these folks were in their fifties, they really had all the geriatric conditions and things we associate with much older. Yeah, this is a geriatrics journal, and generally, if people aren’t over the age of 65, JAGS may not look at it as strongly. Margot: Yes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ruth: Oh, absolutely.

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