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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. Eric: And particularly, the one that seems the hardest is changing the physical environment. And so how can we adopt these five elements for the unique environment that we’re in?

Hospital 100
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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

And sometimes, you know, to pelvic floor physical therapists, to nurses or practice assistants who have training and teaching these techniques and guiding patients and practices them, then great. Workshops, symposia, at society meetings. Eric 28:48 Yeah. Alison 29:08 Yes. Eric 35:23 Yeah, they’re in the beerus criteria, right?

IT 120
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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

We for a year did creative workshops, taking apart the story of Peter Pan, working with Angie McAllister, who was the Director of Cultural Transformation for Signature Healthcare at the time for all those nursing homes. Anne: It’s psychological and physical, and there’s a lot of work to take that apart.

Community 101
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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. ” To hide my professional opinion, does that help? People think of the phases of a typical clinical consultation. Alexis, why don’t you? Alexis: Sure.

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

GeriPal

We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. I’m workshopping what I’m going to say at the “Congress du caretive” [speaking in French]. And the reason for that is the nature of our palliative care intervention.

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Grief, Loss, and Well-Being Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman

GeriPal

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also physical assault from serious injuries to just kind of hearing about friends who have died from this incident. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.