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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Did this primary palliative care intervention in the emergency room involving a. Would it have changed potentially utilization rates like hospice utilization?

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Tom: We should have had you sing Urgent Emergency. Eric: So let’s talk about the emergency room. Eric: Okay.

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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. We’re in about year two right now.

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

GeriPal

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. They were slightly mischaracterized.

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

GeriPal

The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. The post Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.