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How to Improve Your Venous Circulation with Compression Therapy

Vascular Physician

Types of Compression Therapy The two key types of compression therapy include graduated compression stockings and compression bandages: Graduated Compression Stockings These special stockings fit tighter than regular sock. Compression therapy during pregnancy should be used under the guidance of a healthcare professional.

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

GeriPal

Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

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

GeriPal

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. So, for instance, I do a psychosocial screen, I do a physical screen, I do screens in all the other domains. Sometimes we all listen to the initial consult. But how about you!

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

GeriPal

And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think. Eric: Yeah. I’ll say it.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

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 palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training.

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

GeriPal

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. Eric: So how do you put that all together?