Caregiver Support Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

In this blog, we will investigate some of these fascinating medical professions and examine what each entail, educational pathways available, unique contributions they make toward improving healthcare delivery. Nurses may choose from specialty fields such as emergency medicine, oncology or geriatrics that align with their passions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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Diversity Nursing

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chief Nursing Officer On a day-to-day basis, the CNO of a healthcare organization is kept busy by a wide range of responsibilities. The Director of Nursing is a qualified Nurse who is often called upon to advise in difficult, sensitive or long-term care situations. Average Annual Salary- $159,849 5.

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Boca Home Care Services

MARCH 6, 2022

Elderly people, aged 60 and above, regularly pay visits to healthcare centers for chronic back pain problems (it is chronic if the pain or ache lasts longer than three months). This, among other things, includes administering opioid medications to geriatric patients with different health conditions. Lifestyle Changes.

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

They play a key role in coordinating patient care and may specialize in areas like geriatrics or palliative care. NPs often serve as primary healthcare providers and may specialize in areas such as family medicine, pediatrics, or gerontology. They can prescribe medications, diagnose diseases, and provide treatment plans.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). I was about to say with our system of long-term care, but we do not have a system of long-term care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

J Am Geriatr Soc. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. We have on our steering committee, we have Lori Porter from NAHA, which is the National Association of Healthcare Assistance, and she’s been very active. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Mike.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Agreed.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

I’d also think, is it reciprocity if we prioritize frontline healthcare workers or is it like that instrumental value where actually, we don’t care what they did in the past, we care that they’re able to work in the future. Govind: Yeah. Govind: So you’re right that those often go together. Govind: Yeah.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Over the years, NPTM has grown in scope, with physical therapists and healthcare providers participating across the country, sharing the many ways physical therapy helps people of all ages live healthier, more active lives. Falls are the leading cause of injury among older adults and are a critical area where PTs can make a difference.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. We also touch briefly on topics discussed in prior podcasts such as loneliness and federal responses to the pandemic in relation to long-term care.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You can choose from a surprising array of care settings: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, schools, long-term care centers, or even correctional facilities. You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. Inpatient hospital units.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Welcome, Karl.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

CDC’s Injury Center created this initiative for healthcare providers who treat older adults who are at risk of falling, or who may have fallen in the past. Of the more than 1 in 4 older adults who fall, more than half of those who fall don’t tell their healthcare provider. Why is this important?

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

But at the same time, we’re saving a lot of moral distress of the long term care staff in terms of having to bear watching people not have thirst needs addressed. Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Her most recent book is Elderhood.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So it’s been a privilege to be given the opportunity to get engaged on specifically the dementia care side of this.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. Sarah 03:08 Yeah, you know, when I went into my geriatric fellowship or even during residency, I think that I thought that I was going to be interested in dementia and that maybe that would be my line of focus.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Jim: Well, I took good care of myself during that time. Welcome back to GeriPal, Darrell. Darrell: Thank you very much.

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