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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “Hello. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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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. It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy.

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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. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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

GeriPal

I could walk down the hall and get information. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So I remember talking with David Reuben and others and say, all right, we need to be a doctor and diagnose exactly the question you ask, Eric.