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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. Because I might be able to cope and manage in one situation with the skills and supports that I have, and with those same skills and supports, and another situation kind of come unraveled. Great to be here.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. So we got a lot to cover.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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

GeriPal

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Relationships are usually more complicated. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

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. Annals of Int Med. There are some subtleties there.

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