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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. Carla: Thanks so much. Nice to see you all.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people. We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast.

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Palliative Care Conference: A Discussion with nVoq

Hospice News

In 2015, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s, had three surgeries pretty quickly within a year and was homebound for about nine months. I think we’re coming a long way. My story is that in addition to running a hospice and palliative care program, I have a child with a chronic disease. It needs to be a part of what we do.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. Summary Transcript Summary Gabapentin is the 10th most prescribed drug in the United States and use is increasing. Oh, we should also plug your podcast.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Yep, for geriatrics? And we were specifically interested in looking at patients who had high-risk inpatient procedures.

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Mental Health Nursing Fast-Growing Field With Diverse Possibilities

Nurse.com

You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. PMHNP programs have nearly doubled over the past eight years (with 208 programs in 2021, up from 114 programs in 2015). “We You might decide to specialize in a certain condition — addiction, trauma, disaster recovery, or mood disorders.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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