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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. Alex Smith: We have a full house.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Nick: More than obesity, more than education, that’s the one that people pay attention to. But on the personal level, it’s an engagement issue as well. Eric: Yeah.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal. Michelle 01:22 Thanks for having us today.

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

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Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And I think, if you think about, at least from my perspective, nurses love all the letters behind their names. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. Lyndsay: Yeah.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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And so we do have consultants who come in the building. Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. Like, what does that part look like?

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Tim 43:15 I’m an educator at heart. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Eric 43:13 Great.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. Then there’s workforce, so thinking about the education and training of the workforce and how do we enhance that. So I am requesting The Sifters by Andrew Bird. Eric: Can I ask why? I enjoyed learning this song.

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