GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Because people, they go to the hospital, then they revoke. Go ahead, Lauren.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Did I get that right?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

Jerry: Well, I started in 2015 doing the Jewish body washing after the death. Jerry: Well, for me it’s about, I may have not chose this to be my community, but I chose the actions that led this to be my community. And they’re my family and the patients here and the doctors and the nurses. What do I want to do?”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. But that was separate from MAID.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. As we age, our body’s capacity to adapt to things becomes a little more challenge. What does that actually look like?

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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. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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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. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. Malaz: Yeah.

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