Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

They play a key role in coordinating patient care and may specialize in areas like geriatrics or palliative care. NPs often serve as primary healthcare providers and may specialize in areas such as family medicine, pediatrics, or gerontology. They can prescribe medications, diagnose diseases, and provide treatment plans.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Linda Leekley ( 01:11 ): And Gary, as mentioned, is the Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest accrediting body and healthcare in a career spanning more than 30 years. That’s what every successful healthcare organization should strive to achieve. Brett Ringold ( 04:39 ): Yeah, absolutely.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Making the decision that it’s time for your elderly parent to move into a long-term care facility is never easy, yet in some instances it is essential if your parent needs care you might not be able to offer. Selecting the right long-term care facility will impact your parent’s experience.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Anne: Right.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He’s 91, lives in assisted living, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assisted living facilities, so it seems very timely. We have on our steering committee, we have Lori Porter from NAHA, which is the National Association of Healthcare Assistance, and she’s been very active.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Yep, for geriatrics?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

Farrand joins NHPCO from VITAS Healthcare, where she is currently winding down her tenure as National Director of VITAS Palliative Care. Farrand is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner with an MSN focused on geriatric and adult health.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

And so all of us in the healthcare profession, in in the he caring profession, I like, that’s my new thing, health, right? We can guide them to have a more total experience without the denial that that goes through our healthcare system. Hospital residential care assisted living, nursing facilities resident.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

” But we had a hunch that turned out to be right that by the time these folks were in their fifties, they really had all the geriatric conditions and things we associate with much older. Yeah, this is a geriatrics journal, and generally, if people aren’t over the age of 65, JAGS may not look at it as strongly. Margot: Yes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Not the skilled.

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