GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Kate: Thank you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. We hope you enjoy this episode. Justin, welcome to GeriPal. Justin: Hello. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I went into emergency medicine to act. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. Today we focus on an intervention , published in JAMA, that gave emergency clinicians basic palliative care knowledge, training, and skills.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. Welcome back, Ashwin. Ashwin Kotwal: Excited to be back. Eric: Now, it’s interesting. All right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome you to the GeriPal Podcast, Julien Cobert, who is an intensivist and aging researcher GeriPal Podcast, Julien. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about aging in the ICU. Chris Cornell is one of my favorite musicians. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. But before we go into all of that, I think, Bill, you have a song request for Alex. Bill 01:52 I do. Eric 02:01 Why guy Clark’s the Cape? Bill 02:03 Oh, it’s a long story. I’ll make sure.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging? Do you know how these agencies fit in with programs like Meals-on-Wheels or other nutritional support programs? Susan: It is my anthem.

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FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. The Attorney General, after considering HHS’ recommendations, “concludes that there is, at present, substantial evidence that marijuana does not warrant control under schedule I.” 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Since then there has been a lot of back and forth, with even a couple of podcasts from us, several JAMA viewpoints, and most recently a series of published replies from leaders in the field on why ACP is still valuable (see below for references). . Despite all of these publications, I’m still left at a loss of what to think about it all.

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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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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Enzymes provide the body with instructions for what it needs to do, and when people lose energy and water, biochemical systems in the body start to fail, Wood says. The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Including, I think, a 24/7 palliative care intervention in the emergency room, an inpatient comfort care intervention for COVID-positive patients … doing a tremendous amount. So we anticipated, based on what was happening in Seattle, a pretty large influx of elders that were going to come through the emergency room.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Butstay with us heremight AI help to address some of the major issues present in surrogate decision making? Algorithms using millions of direct observations of a persons behavior to provide an authentic portrait of the way a person lived? You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves? Not always anyway.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts.

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