GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare. So I would love to hear. Tell me about your illness.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. Eric: And what do we know about the outcomes of individuals getting these procedures, especially those with cognitive issues and dementia. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir. Samir: Thanks, Alex and Eric.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And what my goal was was to try to get a 360 degree view of the healthcare system by interviewing as many different types of people that will influence care for people who are at the end-of-life or people with serious illness in the hospital. There’s obviously private hospitals, academic hospitals, community hospitals.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Many states already have standing orders that allow for the dispensing of naloxone without an individual prescription and other public health initiatives to increase naloxone access. February 2023 Advisory Committee for NNS Rx-to-OTC Switch Narcan Nasal Spray was originally approved by FDA in November 2015 (NDA 208411).

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Supply Chain Healthcare Professional Community IT 64

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. There’s also been some differences in things like staffing.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

I am there with individuals who are dying. 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. So that touches you. I work at the VA. Really hard days.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. This is so important to patients, so important to their healthcare, so important to their quality of life. Are there any tools? Do we have any data?

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) who develop dementia are a particularly complex and understudied population with various healthcare needs. Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. 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.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

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. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. 2015, 2016.

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