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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Shingles: The Disease, the Vaccine, and the Role of Nurses in Vaccination Conversations

AJN Off the Charts

Serious adverse events are rare. Track missed appointments and conduct outreach Integrating Vaccination into Routine Care Nurses in primary care, geriatrics, and specialty clinics can: Review vaccine history during annual wellness visits Integrate shingles vaccination with other adult immunizations (e.g.,

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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

Hospice News

More than half of women and roughly 60% of men reported experiencing at least one traumatic event in their lifetime in a National Comorbidity Study (NCS). Greater awareness and education are key components to breaking the silent cycle of violence, abuse and trauma. The proliferation has led to increased recognition at national levels.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our early studies in the same nursing home population, we found about 70% of residents had a deprescribing event of antihypertensives during their stay. And unfortunately, that trial was stopped early because of some current concerns about increased adverse events in the deprescribing group.

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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

Hospice News

The 3-Act Model has been woven into various other programs across Johns Hopkins, including medicine residency at Bayview and multiple fellowship programs, spanning geriatrics to oncology. “[Our program] is fiercely narrative and really focuses as much on the art of listening as the art of what we say,” Wu said.

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Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast wtih Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner

GeriPal

We have Brienne Miner who is a geriatrician and sleep specialist and assistant professor at Yale in geriatrics. Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Brienne: Thank you for having me.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

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Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho. She created TimeSlips which we talk about in our podcast. Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.