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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

They weren’t hurt, they didn’t need transport, and we were seeing the same people over and over again. But what was really interesting is the transport to the hospital was actually going down in their system. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. Eric: Oh, no.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. Whether again, be transportation, food delivery, things like that. Talent is something, but it’s really about putting in the work and then keeping also to place it somewhere or waiting for an event.

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

GeriPal

This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event.