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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. That started in November of 2020. Annals of Int Med.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Of note, we talk about candidates from all parties today. There is a tension.

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