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

GeriPal

And often patients are told there’s no cardiovascular problem, you don’t have heart failure, you’re older, or maybe it’s from another chronic condition or. They see it’s preserved. But another layer I would add to it is also maybe more patient centric. I don’t know.

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

GeriPal

” And we can offer things, someone presents with a nutritional need, but we can say, ask about, “Do you need grab bars in your shower? ” And then, the health plan can say, “Can you follow-up on this?” Would you be a candidate for adult daycare? Do you have a caregiver in the house who might need?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. We present it to CMMI, to CMS, whoever will listen to us, people on The Hill.