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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. Kellie: Yes.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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Today we are delighted to welcome from the East Coast, we have Nadine Carter, who’s a nurse practitioner who spent seven years in outpatient endocrinology and is now a hospice and palliative care fellow at Dartmouth Health and instructor at Dartmouth. Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today. Absolutely. This is great.

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

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The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). In their communities? With their regular providers? Eric: Yeah.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

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Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Marian: Thank you.

Illness 101