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

GeriPal

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. And there’s other adults, older adults, that could be on other units that could get some of these more systemic geriatrics changes. Eric: What do you think, Kellie?

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice? Eric: All right. So, when we decided to create the podcast, I think Alex’s first question was, “What’s a podcast?”

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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. I think in the era when I trained in the 2008 timeframe, you know, it was very much just like somebody has pain, they need opioids, they have pain, they have more pain, they need lots more opioids.