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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.
So we’re not just in home care, we’re in hospital, we’re in laboratory, ambulatory, you know, nursing care and assistedliving centers as well. If you’re an agency who also provides pt, OT of speech pathology, registered nursing at home, geriatric management, that’s a wonderful thing.
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 assistedliving, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection.
Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assistedliving facilities, so it seems very timely. When you hear, “We need more money to pay for staff,” you have to say to yourself, “Where’s the money presently going?” Jasmine: Thank you.
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Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome Meredith Green e , a friend, a geriatrician, researcher, associate professor at Indiana University, who was previously with us at UCSF in our division of geriatrics. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about HIV and geriatrics and palliative care. But to kind of ease us into it.
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Hospital residential care assistedliving, nursing facilities resident. Just supporting each other too, because how many people are leaving healthcare, but especially leaving this geriatric medicine post-acute facet because they get frustrated or they get fearful of, of these kind of situations. What do you think Barbara?
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