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.

Nursing home 135

Nursing home Feeding Nursing Geriatrics 135

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

Palliative care 304

Palliative care Palliate Informed consent Article 304

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Because it suffers from an informative censoring problem. Good to see you.

Palliative care 215

Palliative care Palliate Article Geriatrics 215

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. One, we term compensatory strategies, and the other are rehabilitative. Eric: Great.

Feeding 226

Feeding Definition Article Geriatrics 226

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

So if you remember all these vaccine allocation plans where you had the first tier maybe for much older adults or people in long term care facilities or something, and then the second tier might have been people over 50 or people working in highly exposed jobs. The post Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment?

Article 164

Article Definition Healthcare Geriatrics 164

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?

Geriatrics 196

Geriatrics Palliative care Palliate Social worker 196

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.

Geriatrics 167

Geriatrics Medicare Caregiver Palliative care 167

AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. The realities of today’s long-term care environment. The proposed requirements do not reflect LPNs in the HPRD.

Nursing home 96

Nursing home Long-term care Nursing 2001 96

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. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Yeah.

Palliative care 145

Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 145

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. I could walk down the hall and get information. And I ended up having to leave full-time work to help care for my dad.

Medicare 228

Medicare Caregiver 2024 Social worker 228

Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care. The Care Plan also serves Black and Brown communities, says Boyd, who, prior to founding The Care Plan, spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at geriatric care facilities in Chicago.

Caregiver 111

Caregiver 2011 2015 Social worker 111

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Welcome, Karl.

Document 268

Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 268

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Mike. I hope I got that right.

Nursing home 183

Nursing home Nursing Long-term care Medical director 183

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. He’s a geriatrician.

Long-term care 278

Long-term care Grief 2020 Medical director 278