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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. I do think that some of the basics, like making sure that we’re updating the surrogate, which require us to find the surrogate is vital and something that we should educate folks about.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point. Do I exercise, do I smoke?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. They could have diagnosed him earlier. I had a supportive spouse.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. This is before value-based care, all of that.

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A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity

Physician's Weekly

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. He was diagnosed as a baby with Prader-Willi syndrome — a rare disorder sparked by a genetic abnormality. . But Strong said that already some of the contacts at the FDA she’d spent nearly 15 years educating about the disorder have left the agency.