GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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Feeding Document Resuscitation Article 197

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 have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. I was on service and I had a geriatrics fellow and a palliative care fellow.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 145

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. . You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.

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Palliative care Palliate Geriatrics Definition 191