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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. Is that right, Nick?

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

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. Eric 20:51 And your deprescribing was on hospital discharge.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. It’s okay.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

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On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). difficile infections. Diff rates, for example at a unit level.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.