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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. There was a hesitancy to engage black families.

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

GeriPal

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. Juliet: Because even in the ICU, they’ll often have multiple meetings just to try and help a family move along before they can make a decision. It’s part of our family mythology.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. This would present a valuable opportunity for doctors and their families to learn French. Canada fits Americans comfortably.