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Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson

GeriPal

Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? And I think Andrew’s going to have good ideas about, like, why the term paradoxical and are these events paradoxical, truly? Andrew could talk about. And the Clin.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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

GeriPal

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? And we have these.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. Prior-auth forms? Eric 26:36 Yeah.

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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. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. So you’re kind of the guest host today. Why did you do that paper, James? James 17:03 Yeah, I think so.

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