GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. So it really helped form community between patients and helped build community with the palliative team that was involved.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Now it’s 70%.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 25:08 Super special. Kara 10:12 Yep.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. And I was terrified.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community.

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