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

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If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Kellie: Thank you so much.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care. BJ: Mm-hmm.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

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Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis. Eric 11:50 I also have to ask, because we will have a link to this article. One of my favorite articles. Would you mind just describing what you did in that article? This is Eric Widera.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. Actually, it’s not really an article.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. Ira: I like the article. I don’t want Ava Kofman’s article to draw all our attention because the issues that she brought out had been brought out before. She’s filming us today.

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

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That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Ann: Likely.

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