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

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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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. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher. Joel may know. Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

And I think with the Medicare hospice benefit not meeting the needs of older adults, it’s very hard to even have a segue to have those conversations because you can’t really offer people a path forward in a way that aligns with their values. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Eric: BlackRock.

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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. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Michele: So that number’s really growing. Michele: Yeah.

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Comfort Home Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As we saw during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors living in nursing homes and other residential facilities face a significantly higher risk of contracting diseases. Aging in place with the assistance of qualified caregivers provides significant benefits as compared to living in a nursing home or residential facility.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. So they looked at those that died in 2019, did a year back look at total cost of care that showed at six months, if somebody lives six months on average, those in hospice cost the Medicare trust fund 11% less than those who never enrolled.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

More and more people are choosing to die at home. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Now, there are between four and five thousand. Bereavement Services.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

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. And so yeah, it’s really like a call to action for people to start working on this. Eric: Oh yeah. Raele: Yeah.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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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? That’s the problem.

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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. My entire career has been taken care of in primary hospitalists and palliative underserved populations, either dual-eligible, Medicaid, and Medicare or community health centers, so I’ve always worked in that environment.

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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. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Medicare, on their brochures, frail hands. 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.” You need to show them how palliative care could help them live better. ” Okay.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

I read this Twitter thread by Andy Slavitt, who was a former head of Medicare, Medicaid under Obama, former Biden White House senior advisor, host of In the Bubble Podcast. Let’s focus on outpatient management, nursing home management. And you said, “No, that’s too depressing. That’s not where we are.”

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