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

GeriPal

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. Is that right? Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Is that a black box?

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. Alex: So we’ll see what these come out like.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information.

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

GeriPal

They don’t have nearly the responsibilities that a certified nursing assistant has when thinking about utilities, groceries, rent, mortgage, all of that stuff on a monthly basis. Goal five is focused on quality insurance, so designing a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance. Eric: Okay.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? We utilize the generous donations from our foundation to support the end-of-life doula program. We have one doula who is really well-trained and well experienced in advanced care planning, and that’s kind of her thing that she does. It just depends.

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