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

GeriPal

I was involved in the ethics committee with Tim, and we started creating a series of webinars with an awesome group of collaborators that addressed implicit bias. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? Then, Nancy mentioned the possibility of creating this framework. We just haven’t looked at it.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. What I’d like to see come out of it, and we’re going to be taking action, doing a webinar, and then trying… Not trying. Alex: Yeah.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. We have, about, monthly webinars. And I wonder whether sending them to the hospital would, actually, cause them more harm than good.

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