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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. Eric: So can I ask also, Stephanie, you did this survey fall of 2020. And that model just made sense. So if you can’t do an ACE unit, make progress.

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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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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

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Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment? Govind Persad and Emily Largent

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And then being on a scarce resource committee during March, April 2020, man, it got really complicated and we spent hours and days trying to figure things out. Govind Persad and Emily Largent appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

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As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. Eric: That’s a complicated form then. I think it was Bob Lee’s 2020 JAGS paper. You write who the surrogate is.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004.

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