GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. And one of the principal driving factors behind doctors wanting to know whether the patient has died, I think we need to acknowledge, is harvesting organs for transplant. This patient died.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So you plan on your geriatrician, older patients, getting it every year. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. Monica: And the patient said, “I don’t like my doctor wearing masks.” So where are we?

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Louise 08:10 Well, I think obviously, you don’t want to break the law and you don’t want to violate professional ethics. If you are concerned that your silence can be a form of complicity and bad behavior, too, we have a certain amount of expertise. But to actually make a diagnosis without the patient in front of you.

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Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141