GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Primary outcome was quality of life. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? Was the clinician working frontline in those community hospitals?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. Samir: As some of your audience may know, there are new billing codes introduced January 1st, 2016 to start reimbursing for having advance care planning discussions.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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