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?

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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.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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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? From a medical director standpoint, how do you think about that?

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