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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 the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. What is your clinician to patient ratio?

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

GeriPal

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. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting.

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

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. It’s because they literally couldn’t access the information.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

So you have the consultation. And so on the inpatient side, which I see a lot of inpatient consults here, a large portion of what I do before they even come down to my department is making sure that they would be candidates for the simulation and treatment for the reasons that I described. Procedure as well as the treatments.

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

GeriPal

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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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. Whether they have a social worker, a nurse, a physician, an NP on the team, they know what to do with that information. Sometimes we all listen to the initial consult. It actually can be applied to research and education, too.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024.

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