GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Cognitive impairment. Kathleen 07:49 Yes.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I think that’s the part that’s still the fundamental foundation of hospice, individualized care plans focusing on patients, families, wants, needs and goals. Management, it’s hard.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. It’s all individual. You interviewed some geriatricians. It’s impressive.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. What are they accountable for? Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . It improves symptom management. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. No, no, no. No difference.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). So we from the very beginning had an option of clinician administered medical assistants in dying or lethal drugs administered by either a nurse practitioner or a physician or self-administered. And like 99.8%

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. I wasn’t able to really fully recover from that, from a relational standpoint, and as best I could do symptom management along the way. In the individual clinical encounter, that’s a lot of what we do.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: And Susan?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services. Prof Case Manag. I was also working there at an adult day center for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other related dementias. How would you think about each individual of those three steps? Geriatrics. Alaine: Yeah. Lee: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. We weren’t even up to Medicare Advantage.

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