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

GeriPal

Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. And so for our example, when we launched our brand new ACE unit here at UAB in 2008, we did not have the funds to redesign the unit until three years later.

Hospital 101
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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). They don’t have an addiction clinic.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today.

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

GeriPal

And that’s where, based on this, I made a decision to leave University of North Carolina to come to Indiana University because my mentor, Chris Callahan, just received the grant from AHRQ to build the first randomized clinical control trial that evaluated the comprehensive dementia care model. They can be nurse if you want to.