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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

We also discuss Scott’s recently published paper in JAGS that showed that older men with lower urinary tract symptoms have increased risk of developing mobility and activities of daily living (ADL) limitations, perhaps due to greater frailty phenotype. . Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Scott: Yeah.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those. It’s an administrative burden. We measure all of those things.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

James: Definitely not-. Eric: Yeah, this is definitely… If you grew up in the ’80s, this is the slow dancing song. It predicts mortality, it predicts time to walking disability, so time until someone can’t walk across a room, and time to ADL disability. Welcome back to GeriPal, James. Welcome back, Sei.

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

GeriPal

I definitely do. Eric: What excites me about the med students is when I was a med student, I never heard of ADLs or IDLs and we just gave a talk to first or second year of med students. So that’s one thing I feel some optimism about. And I love this community. And they give off so much energy for me and make me feel so good.

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The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

How to motivate your caregivers with it: You can be known as the agency that prepares, equips, and advances their employees simply by reconstructing your definition of training. Reposition the caregiving occupation as an opportunity for unparalleled career growth and increase the scope of clients your agency can care for.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on prognosis over the last couple months: Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley. Why do this? James, welcome back to GeriPal. James 00:42 Thanks for having me. Welcome back to GeriPal.