Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 17, 2024

April had been Marie’s caregiver at home for the past few years after Marie was diagnosed with end-stage Alzheimer’s. Now Marie had been admitted to the hospital for pneumonia, and April had not left her side. April’s unique knowledge of Marie’s specific needs proved to be invaluable to guiding Marie’s treatment plan at the hospital.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 2, 2024

Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and is engaged in clinical trials as an oncology nurse at the National Institutes of Health. Lindsley—or “Farmer Matt,” as colleagues know him—is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Resources to help you start acting on your concerns.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

GIP care must be provided in a Medicare-certified hospice inpatient facility or a hospital. Also, the patient’s attending doctor must certify the need for GIP care based on their clinical condition and care needs. End-of-Life Care: GIP is NOT used for a patient who is imminently dying and can be managed at home.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Mazie, welcome to GeriPal. William: Sure.

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Hospice News

JUNE 2, 2022

We had a multimodal approach, meaning we serviced in the hospital, in senior living settings, and in the home. We had two palliative care clinics. For those of you that are wondering, “Well, how do we go get those resources?” We have a patient who really has nowhere to go after the hospital.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 28, 2022

Her community service efforts and nurse-led clinic model sponsored by the university bring healthcare directly to those most in need. At National University, McNeal has worked with community-based organizations to establish nurse-managed clinics at churches, community centers and shelters in South Los Angeles.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Alice had always been very healthy and rarely went to the doctor , until s he started tripping over her own feet and noticed so me twitching now and again. It took months to figure out she had ALS, a fatal degenerative neurological disorder, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Alice receives care for her ALS at a specialized ALS clinic.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury.

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 27, 2022

He currently works in Tasmania in a busy public hospital ICU. I completed my Bachelor of Science in Nursing way back in 2008 in a state university from my home country, the Philippines. I passed my Nursing Board examination right after my graduation and started to do my post-grad training in a tertiary hospital. ICU Articles.

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The Nurse Break

MARCH 20, 2023

Pregnancy and Death I commenced at a rural hospital and after one year transferred to a Sydney hospital. Nursing Homes and Perceived Failure In between I worked as an EN in a nursing home before returning to NSW. Nursing Homes provided greater flexibility in rostering than did hospitals.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Matt Tyler (aka Pallidad for those on Twitter ): Matt is the Hospice and Palliative care doctor who created How To Train Your Doctor , which helps patients living with serious illness find tips on “owning” their healthcare plan on his Instagram and YouTube pages. And his major social media endeavor is titled How to Train Your Doctor.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

We are also joined by Diah Martina, a palliative care doctor trying to grow palliative care in Indonesia, in part by starting a palliative care podcast in Indonesian (she was observing today). People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year. Eric: How about you, David? David: Right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. Alex: What time did you get home, young man? I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Alex: In studio, we have Karen Moss, who is visiting us. So what I saw in the clinical space also both in the United States and in my home country of The Bahamas just made it made sense for me to look into this a little bit more. ” That hits home ’cause less than 10 years away. This is Eric Widera.

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

I want to remind you though, I'm not a doctor, I don't give medical advice. And we'd play all morning until our moms came down and literally called for us to come home for lunch. I ran home. And she slipped out and went home. laughingly, she asked if I was coming home. I'm not a nurse. I'm not a social worker.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When my dad first entered the hospital after having a double heart attack, it really was quite a shock to me as to what would happen next. But I learned what hospice was when the doctors told me that they recommended he go into it. Definitely. That was peculiar, though, because no one actually stated that he was dying.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. And she’s here as a visiting professor for the day at UCSF. They were at the VA, but not so much at our main hub hospital where I trained.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics? Why did you go into it?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Full disclosure, I talked with Ava Kofman a bunch while she was preparing that article, and I thought based on my professional experience working in hospice, things that I had seen, that she raised a lot of issues that I had personally encountered in my clinical experience. My professional home. Are you going to see a doctor are?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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. I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ruth: Right.

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