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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. Julien: Lauren, I totally agree with you.

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

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room.

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

GeriPal

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And one of the things that we’ll talk about today is how did the community respond?

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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. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. Number one, number of days you are in the community.

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A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity

Physician's Weekly

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in the seconds the cupboard was left unlocked. That future may already be taking shape.