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

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. ” In 27 states and Washington, D.C.,

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

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And so often we get consulted by teams that say, “I have this older patient and they’re pretty isolated and I think they have dementia. Is that right? Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

And one of the keys that sort of not publishable, because it’s kind of hard to put in a publication is that… I think it was, a nurse practitioner was just a fantastic human being, exemplary, the best you could possibly have. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. Lyndsay: Yeah.