GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. She had a respiratory arrest, and the nurse was really distraught. And that helps us get to the decision.

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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.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Promoting healthy aging means that gerontological nurses want to acknowledge cardiovascular and cognitive decline and give patients information and education to help them in those areas. And nurses and families can introduce the idea of planning for healthcare emergencies with advance directives.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice services can be provided at home or in inpatient facilities with staff experienced in end-of-life care. Hospice physicians may also have additional certifications such as geriatrics, oncology, or palliative care to demonstrate their knowledge of this field. Contact us today for more information.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. Michele: So that number’s really growing. The doors aren’t locked.

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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 14, 2024

So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. I got a question then, because I see one in 12 nursing home patients with dementia are placed on thickened liquids. I think it’s around one in 12 nursing home patients But it’s a lot. Eric: Oh yeah. I see this in a lot in dementia. Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You may also identify reports published by governing bodies and potential third parties (such as nursing home abuse lawyers ) if a facility has been investigated. Pay careful attention to reviews left by residents or family members of residents that discuss their experiences.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. ” What we should say to our nurses is, “Thank you for letting me know.

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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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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. HPRD—and nurse aides (NAs)—2.45 Several nursing homes have been operating at critically minimal staffing levels for years calling for the necessity of some form of staffing level floor.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. That dawned on me.

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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. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. Eric: Can I ask? Eric: Yeah.

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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.

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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. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? We need that information.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. I could walk down the hall and get information. And I was terrified.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people. We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Here’s our contact information. laugher] Alex: I’m hopeful that there will be some people listening to this who are the future content creators in the geriatrics and palliative care space, and I look forward to what they have to offer. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Eric: BlackRock.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.

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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. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, James.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

But I think what we’re missing a lot of information on what Joe is talking about is just how much variation there is in that within both non-profit and for-profit, and I think these issues are coming up in non-profit hospices as well, and we just don’t have the data because the information is not reported to anybody.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Geriatrics. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. I’ll tell you, when I first started out, I was using very advanced techniques when we first started doing it with our nurses and our hospitalists and our social workers. Prof Case Manag.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

You’re getting them with a little teeny slice of their information and you’re just trying to build some willingness for them to hear more. In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. There are 86-year-olds living in a nursing home with frailty, who I say, “I’m a geriatrician.”

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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. Hospital administrators placed the woman in a subpar nursing home, at which her health declined. This includes the 2.4

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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. But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

But we have very little information, almost no information. Let’s focus on outpatient management, nursing home management. And so there are other new treatments that I hope also will inform RSV and other RNA viruses. We are going to have a massive outbreak in China. Their vaccines aren’t as effective.

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