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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Get the hospice referral.

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