Chicago Caregiving
JANUARY 3, 2024
He attended two sessions of a free legal service to learn how to exercise his power of attorney, and he asked one of his two brothers to research long-term care facilities. Having an independent social worker do an assessment for stress helped make it real.
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.
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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Good to see you. Ashwin, welcome back. Ashwin: Thanks for having me.
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?
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.
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. I was on service and I had a geriatrics fellow and a palliative care fellow. So I got the white board and I wrote advance care planning. Rebecca: Yeah.
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. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. Long-term care.
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