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

GeriPal

After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. And that model just made sense.

Hospital 101
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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. This is Eric Widera. Nadine: In Idaho.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

It used to be a much more complicated model. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. David: Right.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness.

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

GeriPal

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. So that’s great. And it was like 29eds. Yeah, yeah.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. And making most I can do, I can use my mouth even though I only have six fingers here. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful. And like 99.8%

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