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

GeriPal

Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation.

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

GeriPal

She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. And I didn’t read it as damning of all for-profit providers, but I think it needed to happen. It feels somewhat random in some ways. Eric: Lack of a caregiver.

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

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. Now they’re getting psychedelic experiences, you know, and transformation in a consulting office. Some of them also had psychiatric or psychosocial oncology providers as well.

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

GeriPal

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . We got some really special guests with us. And that’s a lot easier if all providers were X waivered too. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Eric 01:44 And we’re going to be talking about the roots of palliative care, and I think importantly, not just looking back, but what does that mean for our future as hospice and palliative care providers. Are we losing that thing that makes palliative care special, that Dame Cicely Saunders talks about those. Eric 13:14 Okay.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in.