Community Hospital Physicals Workshop 
GeriPal
JANUARY 12, 2023
But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.
GeriPal
JUNE 26, 2025
But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Because every time we remember a story, it’s changed physically in the brain. I think the process of writing, of getting into it, it’s not too dissimilar from what we do in some narrative medicine workshops where we write to a prompt and we see where it takes us. ” And what a brave thing to do. Vickie: Exactly.
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