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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

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In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. Now, my SWHPN friends will get mad at me if I got that wrong, but I think it was 2013. I am constantly talking to clinical social workers about what are the ways that you can be contributing to research, to publications, to scholarship, to presentations, even if it’s a reflection paper?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Right, my answer that brings us a little bit closer to the present than my childhood. Winston 33:31 2013. Winston Chiong and Sean Aas appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Sean 07:41 So picking up a little bit on that, Winston, to give my kind of real answer.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

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Alex 00:06 Today we’re delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics, author of E lderhood. Alex 00:19 And we have Ken Co vinsky, frequent host, frequent guest on this podcast, who is also in geriatrics at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics.