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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. . Chrissy: Hospice? Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. That’s the problem. What are other options?

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

And then I did a geriatric orthopedic fellowship and that was really an exciting opportunity to help hip fracture patients, but then someone knocked on our door. Eric: What’s a geriatric orthopedic fellowship? So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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

GeriPal

She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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

GeriPal

First, we have James Deardorff, who’s a geriatrician and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. It is appropriate for all patient populations, and it is developed specifically for the palliative care and hospice populations.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Bruce Leff, who is also a geriatrician, and professor of medicine, and director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, and has been studying hospital-at-home since the mid-nineties. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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