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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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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. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Lynn: If they need to go somewhere and receive ADL support and supportive care at the same time, there’s no mechanism to pay for that.

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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. Like, it seems like most people with three ADL impairments, that’s often what we’re thinking about nursing home, or at least really 24/7 care at home or close to that. Good to be here.