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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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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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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. And very frail. Alex 29:26 Exactly.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Anybody with a DEA and… I should be very careful because this is different for physicians and advanced practice providers. And Katie, as an advanced practice provider, is much better than I am at explaining how this works. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. As of December of 2022, there is no X waiver anymore. ” Right?

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? Eric: Six months ago. Ramona: Glomerular Filtration Raterate. I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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