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

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “Hello. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions. And like 99.8%

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

GeriPal

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So I remember talking with David Reuben and others and say, all right, we need to be a doctor and diagnose exactly the question you ask, Eric. So that’s I think diagnoses.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. They’re doing, once a day, either MD, or MP, or nurse practitioner visits in the home as well. And in the omnibus bill that was last passed, the waiver was extended through the end of 2024.

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