GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

All of them are going to be over 65 by 2030, so if you figure a quarter of those have diabetes, I call it the silver tsunami that’s coming into the palliative care geriatrics world, so these are topics that are going to be really important to all of us. And just with the aging population, baby boomers are going to be hitting 65.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We need this type of push to make us feel that we are part of a community and we are part of a movement and things are changing because we are around. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. But their albumin is too.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. Ruth, you’re involved in including it in the nursing curriculum. What does that actually look like?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. So the other part of that thing I would say is all of those things are true about the difference in rates between a community. Eric: Oh, wow. Not true, actually. Margot: After 50.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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