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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.

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

GeriPal

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. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Eric: Yeah, that is amazing.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Eric 21:49 Yeah.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay. These studies are important. Lexy: Yeah.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. So incredibly muscular person.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.