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

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Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. And yeah, it just clicked for me like yes, this is how I like to practice medicine. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Kellie: Thank you so much.

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

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Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I’m guessing not. Eric: Yeah. Anecdote away.

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

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Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. So this is a practical, really basic idea that can be applied to clinical practice.

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

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Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah. Should they?

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

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While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.