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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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

GeriPal

Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Alex: We have some wonderful guests.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. That’s what she does.

Illness 101
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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So we from the very beginning had an option of clinician administered medical assistants in dying or lethal drugs administered by either a nurse practitioner or a physician or self-administered.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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

GeriPal

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Great, thank you both. To Susan’s point.