GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. The first guest is Liz Salmi. Eric: Lucky Strike.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome you to the GeriPal Podcast, Julien Cobert, who is an intensivist and aging researcher GeriPal Podcast, Julien. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about aging in the ICU. Chris Cornell is one of my favorite musicians. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging?

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FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. The 2016 reviews concluded that marijuana continued to meet schedule I criteria for having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. Proposing the clinicians ask a simple follow up question to the usual “do you feel safe at home?” So here is a little bit.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

This federal law has required hospitals with emergency departments to provide stabilizing treatment, including abortion, to patients experiencing medical emergencies for nearly four decades. EMTALA was designed to protect patients in crisis. DFA teaches physicians and medical trainees how to do advocacy.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Some hospitals are expanding emergency room capacity and increasing staffing to accommodate the rising number of flu cases. Public health officials continue to monitor the situation closely, providing updates and guidance to both the healthcare community and the public.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next? Alex: Good challenge.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Including, I think, a 24/7 palliative care intervention in the emergency room, an inpatient comfort care intervention for COVID-positive patients … doing a tremendous amount. So we anticipated, based on what was happening in Seattle, a pretty large influx of elders that were going to come through the emergency room.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Algorithms using millions of direct observations of a persons behavior to provide an authentic portrait of the way a person lived? When Teva Brender and Brian Block first approached me about writing a thought piece about this idea, my initial response was, Hell no. You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

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. “It’s crazy,” said Foley Shenk, who lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts. Edward Markey (D-Mass.),

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