Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. Luminis Health was established in 2019 and generates an annual $1.1 independent of the JV.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.” A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Led the American Geriatric Society. We address: What is coaching? Beth: Yeah.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

While this method is cost-effective and easy to implement, it has limitations, particularly for the geriatric population. Virtual wards are already trialled and implemented for medical and geriatric patients, involve remote monitoring with health devices and telehealth platforms after discharge from the hospital. Griffiths, R.,

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

An estimated 5 million to 8 million older adults in the United States have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from 2018 supplement to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), with projections that this number will triple over the next three decades. Interest rates cloud 2023 outlook.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Hospice providers with higher volumes of assisted living-based patients are 7% more likely to receive lower quality scores than those in other settings, according to a recent study , published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. This paper was published recently in the Journal of American Geriatric Society Lead. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 30, 2025

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 19902019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Quality indicators for a geriatric emergency care (GeriQ-ED)-an evidence-based delphi consensus approach to improve the care of geriatric patients in the emergency department.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

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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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

J Am Geriatr Soc. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 32:22 Geriatrics Palliative Care Podcast. It was late on a Friday afternoon in December 2019. The post Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Emily 32:24 There we go.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 31, 2023

Staffing levels likely drive the differences in hospitalizations and emergency department visits among nursing homes, the researchers report in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. nursing homes using national datasets from 2019. nursing homes using national datasets from 2019.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

He most recently served as UnitedHealth Group’s CEO since 2019 president. Fluent in English, French and Arabic, Abdo has led the Louisiana State University’s geriatric medicine fellowship program since 2016. Prior to that, McMahon was COO of its health care subsidiary Optum.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. In 2019, PMHNPs provided nearly one-third of mental health prescriber visits of Medicare patients, found a recent study. You might decide to specialize in a certain condition — addiction, trauma, disaster recovery, or mood disorders.

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Nurse.com

MAY 11, 2022

They also can specialize in providing care for specific populations, from birth to geriatrics. A 2019 survey of 892 nursing schools with baccalaureate and/or graduate degree programs uncovered 1,637 faculty vacancies, according to AACN’s Special Survey on Vacant Faculty Positions. AACN went so far as to set a goal that U.S.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I started in 2019 and graduated in 2021 with my MBA. Geriatric is my love. Like I said, my great-grandparents raised me, so geriatric is my first love. So, at the time, the hospital had, I think we still do because that’s where I graduated from in 2021, Ashford, where you’ll go to school to further your education.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

So they looked at those that died in 2019, did a year back look at total cost of care that showed at six months, if somebody lives six months on average, those in hospice cost the Medicare trust fund 11% less than those who never enrolled. And I bring up the case, I’m going to use somebody’s name of Cynthia Boyd.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. The post Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The STEADI Initiative offers a coordinated approach to implementing the American and British Geriatrics Societies’ Clinical Practice Guidelines for fall prevention. Of the more than 1 in 4 older adults who fall, more than half of those who fall don’t tell their healthcare provider.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Our most recent transport nursing RDS took place in 2019, and I fully expect the new knowledge, advances, and experiences that came about during the coronavirus pandemic will be apparent as we go through the 2024 transport nursing RDS. The increase in critical care transport certifications over the last three years is impressive.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. I think it was, and they asked three questions about geriatrics, including about anti-psychotics, and it read perfectly. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Can I follow up that question, Eric?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But back in 2019, there was a lot of disagreement in our group about whether for a patient with cancer and cancer related pain and a substance use disorder, whether palliative care was the appropriate specialty to care for those patients. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

We started writing this paper in 2019 actually. The post Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Why did you decide to write this paper? Bry: Yeah, Eric.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

We started writing this paper in 2019 actually. The post Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Bry, before we talk about what you did in the paper, let’s take a step back. Bry: Yeah, Eric. It’s funny.

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