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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. When somebody is not able to function, they need deep therapy, and probably maybe even hospitalization. Beth, welcome to GeriPal. Beth: Thank you.

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

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You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner?

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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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In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. Then wages and benefits, so ensuring competitive wages and benefits for the nursing home workforce, empowering the certified nursing assistant, increasing and improving recruitment and retention of the workforce.

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

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MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Even if the cancer gets cured, they’re not going to become their buprenorphine prescriber, the palliative care consultant. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. Should they?

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