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-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of lifecare Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith.
So we took a look at three different domains of quality of life that are relevant to end of lifecare. Much of my training has been in, in sort of the medical management and symptom management of a patient at the end of their life and thinking about how we do that. Ashwin 23:46 Yeah.
Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of lifecare.”
On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Bring it on.
This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah.
She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of lifecare, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She put her back out.
Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-lifecare. Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts.
You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-lifecare, and similar consequences. You may end up there indefinitely. You’ll have a feeding tube.
Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life.
Ought we, in bioethics, create ethical rules for providing care that is illegal? Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . And as you… Well, the reason we’re connecting all of this today is there are also directives that relate to end of lifecare.
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