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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. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? Corita 18:01 Into nursing homes, you know. Eric 06:50 And Fernanda.

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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. And then, the system responds in turn.

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

GeriPal

But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Malaz: … they have to do medication management.