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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. And so I thought let’s try to figure out actually how many they are, where they are they in academic centers and community centers. Are they community dwelling?

Hospital 101
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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

So this is a practical, really basic idea that can be applied to clinical practice. If they don’t, they know how to get to community resources. And so we often have one person go in to do the initial contact, the initial consult, and it can be anybody from any of the professions. So that’s one idea.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. Eric: So how do you put that all together? Eric: Okay.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

IT 100
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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. They’re often angry.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? Then we wouldn’t play that game of being rehabbed to death.