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The Impact of a Health Professions Education Program on Concussion Management: A Multi-Methods Study of ECHO Concussion [Neurologic illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Concussion management is complex: variable onset of symptoms, urban/rural disparities, and the many professionals involved in case management. ECHO Concussion was launched in 2019 to teach clinicians a comprehensive approach to concussion diagnosis and management. 11 (9%) participated in FGDs.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. We’re starting to adopt them as well for different cultural communities. They have a lot of chronic conditions. Amy, welcome to GeriPal. Amy 00:34 Excited to be here.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

“It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” According to a 2024 survey , of the roughly 431,000 licensed nurse practitioners, 15% are, like Johnson, certified to treat older adults. “Our patient isn’t just the older adult,” Johnson said.

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

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. In their communities? It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.”

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next?

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