Geriatrics Information Long-term care Social worker 
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. This includes health insurance, long-term care policies, veterans’ benefits, and disability insurance.
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
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.
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.
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? For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers.
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.
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.
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