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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And that’s critical. Eric: Yeah.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. Meredith, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about â…“ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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