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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. And very frail. Eric 29:17 Yeah, so. Alex 29:26 Exactly.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? You go into this community, perform this study, you leave. Eric: Six months ago. Eric: Yes.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. But I think the most important thing is just to, to recognize, to ask these types of questions. I think it’s.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

We need this type of push to make us feel that we are part of a community and we are part of a movement and things are changing because we are around. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires. Kate 41:32 Yeah.

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