Events Geriatrics Medicare 
GeriPal
MAY 5, 2022
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.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Actually, Manju, you probably could talk about yourself, but I cite it all the time of veterans who are equally eligible to get their care and Medicare fee for service system versus the VA and that patients who get their care in Medicare are more likely to start dialysis. And you’re counting that survival time in your analysis.
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GeriPal
AUGUST 17, 2023
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.
GeriPal
MARCH 9, 2023
Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. But patients have reported that they still recounted that event as something that was quite transformative and beneficial for them as well. Most participants are White and well-resourced.
Hospice News
MARCH 1, 2024
Obstacles facing palliative care in the ICU One challenge to bear in mind is that some of the measures used in the literature are imprecise due to the traumatic, emotional nature of the event. Families and decision-makers face an extremely difficult time when a loved one enters the ICU — potentially the worst time of their lives.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
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. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
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. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher. Joel may know. Joel: Yeah.
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