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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. 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.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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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. Alex: Okay.

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

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What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare. Well, I guess just over 20 years ago. So I’m going to also plug. Balfour amount.

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

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We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. Lauren: Thanks for having me. Alex: And she’s going to be a guest host today.

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

GeriPal

We got some really special guests with us. And so that lends it properties of being a pretty strong analgesic and it lends its special properties for safety, from a safety profile. So this is 2008 when they were running this study, I’m like why did the heck did they choose buprenorphine? Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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

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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. The post Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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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