GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Really looking forward to the conversation.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation).

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services. Prof Case Manag. So many times, family caregivers have to argue with their loved ones about getting more help in the home or moving them to a place that has safety, has close proximity to medical care. Geriatrics. But we had to negotiate it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. ” That is a myth. Eric: Thanks to all of our listeners.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.”

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care. I think you’re a loving family doing the best you can.” It may have come to a care manager. Stories trump data.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Eric 10:04 And how many Major League managers are. So basically the two best managers in baseball.

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