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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Attendee 11: I am hopeful that the model of care that we deliver is what our patients and their caregivers want, need and deserve. So we need to understand how to get that front and center in how we care for people moving forward into the future. We need good nurse practitioners. Attendee 18: The science.

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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. How high is too high? Should considerations differ for people with dementia?

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

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In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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

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He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). Big randomized control study that came out.

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

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Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. The collaboration is actually the center. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal. DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. What’s in a story? Bennett, C.R.,

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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Is the patient in your descriptor?