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

GeriPal

And ACE units in general take a typical multidisciplinary hospital unit that has all the different team members, so doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, chaplains, patient care technicians, others I’m leaving out. Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? What are the benefits of an ACE unit? Alex: Yeah.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

Preventive Care Strategies That Save Lives in Mesa, Arizona Our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians understands the unique health challenges facing our local community. In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong.

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

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Lyndsay DeGroot, who’s a nurse researcher and T32 postdoc at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 Welcome to GeriPal, Lyndsay.

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

GeriPal

Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes. I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I’ve met and helped hundreds of nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians recapture this bliss and I want all of you to feel it too. Physician burnout describes a dangerous mix of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a loss of meaning in work. But is it really burnout—or something more serious? To be real. Think about it.

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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. In addition to discussing these outcomes, we also discuss: The history of the hospital-at-home movement. Alex: Good challenge. Eric: Okay.

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