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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Eric: Yeah.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. It is a screening? These studies are important. I don’t see a lot of those out there. Lexy: Great.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. This is 24,000 encounters, over 15,000 patients, 11 hospitals, eight states.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Elders Climate Action, and let me just tell you a little bit about who we are, was created in 2014 as the project of a 501(c)(3), Elders Action Network. Eric: So as we start talking about things that we can do about it, maybe we can just start off with this thing of including it in the curriculum for healthcare professionals.