GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Rehabbed to Death. Joan: Thanks. Ruth: Aw, thanks.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Why do so many (most, all??)

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. Proposing the clinicians ask a simple follow up question to the usual “do you feel safe at home?”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. Dean attends a special education program, his mother said. “It only makes sense that it’s complex to treat,” Yanovski said.

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