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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. For context, listen to the prior podcast with Scott on “ nudges ” and prior podcast with Kate on who should get palliative care. Alex, who are our guests today?

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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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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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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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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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. 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. Susan: Thanks so much, Alex. Welcome back, Bob.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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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. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. Long-term care.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. For example, bachelor’s degrees for social workers. The issue is that we don’t have a long-term care system. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Mike. Great to be back.