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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Summary Transcript Summary We have a special extra podcast this week. The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Transcript Eric: Hey, GeriPal listeners, this is a GeriPal special episode. Eric: Yeah.

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

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But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. When somebody is not able to function, they need deep therapy, and probably maybe even hospitalization. Beth, welcome to GeriPal. Beth: Thank you.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

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Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. They also have a team of healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, medical assistants, and administrative staff.

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

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You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

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Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.