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BoldAGE CMO Glenn Meyers: PACE Is Palliative Care

Hospice News

New Jersey-headquartered BoldAge emerged last year, established by a group of former hospice and home health leaders. That empathy is already in every pace employee that I’ve met in all of our centers so far, just like in hospice. So we are palliative care, and palliative care is not just the next step before hospice.

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Falls and Fractures: A Podcast with Sarah Berry

GeriPal

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. Orthostatic vital signs I think can be appropriate. Alex 07:27 Are there professional society recommendations or U.S.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member. There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. Of course, the doctors know they’re in simulation, they signed up for it.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. And you should be able to give it in your hospice unit, like we can in our intensive palliative care unit. Janet: Oh.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting? And attention to pain builds pain. Do you have pain anywhere?” Ivan Ilyich’s character was a jerk.

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