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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. So it’s not that great when someone’s acutely hospitalized.

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

GeriPal

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. Carmen: Thank you.

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

GeriPal

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? I see them both inpatient and outpatient.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. So it’s not that great when someone’s acutely hospitalized.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele. Michele: Thank you for having me. Michele: Yep.

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