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

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Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics.

Hospital 101
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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

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The Hidden Benefits of Regular Check-ups You Might Be Missing Many residents of Mesa and the surrounding Arizona communities don’t realize that preventive care goes far beyond just “checking the box” for your annual physical. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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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. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death.

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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

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Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Marian: Thank you.

Illness 101
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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

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One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing.

Illness 102
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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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