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. He doesn’t prescribe thickened liquids, because he just puts in feeding tubes in everybody.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

So, in front of us today, we have a variety of hot sauces and chicken wings. They’ve all been laid out for you. Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Alex: Great Eric: These are the questions submitted by our audience?

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), followed by health plans, usually sets the general tone of quality assessment and incentives, thus influencing the allocation of resources to specific programs in the short and long term. Population health refers to the health outcomes of a specific group or population.

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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.” Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Oh my gosh, can’t believe I’ve been here more than once now. Bragging rights. That was from our what?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The answer to that question determined whether the beer went down the feeding tube or was a savor and spit process. Sunday dinners involved feeding four generations. /a> Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Goldilocks zone). Nadine: Thank you, guys.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s not the tool itself, it’s that doctors are handing out POLSTs to people at they’re welcome to Medicare or annual wellness exams. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And then we linked that cohort with administrative data, which allowed me to pull out the ICU admissions in addition to manually abstracting all of the paper data for the managed Medicare participants. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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