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Integration with intention

Sound Physicians

Integrating your emergency and hospital medicine programs can make a huge difference in mitigating messy handoffs. Identifying misalignment: The misalignment of people, process, and technology is the most common obstacle when it comes to successfully integrating emergency and hospital medicine. Read the full webinar recap.

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

Physician's Weekly

But in the rest of the country, they need to have a collaborative agreement with or be under the supervision of another health care provider to provide care to older adults. “We tend to be a little stronger in care coordination, family and patient education, and integrating care and social and medical needs.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? I got this.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Talking about palliative care here on this podcast, in our state, gosh, this was in the early ’90s, physician assisted death was on the ballot. Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? Is your brain hurting yet with all these questions?