GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I think the general definition that’s given is it’s the ability to bounce back from some kind of adversity. The example I give is, if you’ve ever walked into a nursing home, or where there’s an activity happening for a group of people with dementia, that is a little depressing to me.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And now I’m almost 90, so definitely I don’t need to do suffering. Louise 13:48 Definitely some thoughts, and I think slightly different for different people. Louise 15:47 Well, I think even in that example of choking in a nursing home, you don’t actually require cardioversion or a breathing tube.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Medical cannabis is not legal in North Carolina, so there are definitely some limits. David 26:42 I discovered that one of the interviews I did for stoned was with a filmmaker in Israel whose debut film, I think, was based on time he spent in a nursing home helping older adults to use cannabis. Eric 26:42 Yeah. There’s.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. I was very excited about the opportunity, and very excited about everything that’s going on at AGS, so when she asked me, I said, “Yes, definitely.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Eric: So it doesn’t just help the patient but it helps everybody around the patient too importantly, like in nursing homes. Lona: Absolutely. Eric: Can I touch on the last study?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. And I thought that was pretty striking.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. It’s not something you can measure, but it’s definitely something that happens during these interviews. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. That’s fine.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. It’s not something you can measure, but it’s definitely something that happens during these interviews. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So the first order on all POLST forms is around code status.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Do I need to mention non-nursing work experience? Non-nursing work experience highlights the versatility of your skill set, so you should definitely include this on your resume. For example, if you organized a blood drive at your school or read to residents of a nursing home, expand on the details of these occasions.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I definitely do. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics?

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2023

We were predominantly women and thus by definition lesser beings! By the 80s it was past time we changed things up for nursing. Unfortunately, although nursing was eventually ‘allowed’ a university education, some were not prepared to argue for the education nursing required and settled for less.

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Nurse.com

JULY 20, 2022

What Is Patient Abandonment in Nursing? The American Nurses Association’s (ANA) definition of patient abandonment is “a unilateral severance of the established nurse-patient relationship without giving reasonable notice to the appropriate person so that arrangements can be made for the continuation of nursing care by others…”.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control. Also, nurse supervisors can share survey scores and comments with the hospice IDG. Were there red flags or warning signs present? WHAT DOES MEDICARE CAHPS REPORT? Embrace Negative Feedback.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

you know, I think there’s, there’s definitely been a change in the perception of continuing education and how important it is for all healthcare professionals. Just one example, when I moved from Minnesota to North Carolina, I was kind of shocked that North Carolina had absolutely no continuing education requirements for nurses.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. Danny 07:39 Yeah, definitely. So some of our approaches definitely altered based on the availability of what we could get done. Oh, sorry, go ahead.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Alex 16:46 On time to nursing, needing nursing home level of care. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Eric: So it doesn’t just help the patient but it helps everybody around the patient too importantly, like in nursing homes. Lona: Absolutely. Eric: Can I touch on the last study?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Eric 02:48 Well, I want to thank you for joining us because you’ve done a lot of the studies around falls and fractures and like, how we think about, especially like in, in frailer older adults, those in nursing homes. About one out of every three older adults falls each year in the nursing home that’s higher.

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