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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. Rehabbed to Death.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. He’s 91, lives in assisted living, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection. Eric 00:05 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Because I think we have someone special, a guest host.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. You’ll have a feeding tube. My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University. Really, a smart and caring woman. And she developed dementia in her later years and she had pretty advanced dementia. Joel: Yeah.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we got a lot to talk about today. Who are our guests? Peter, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Meredith, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Meredith 00:48 Thank you, Alex and Eric.