Hospice News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We also have a home-based primary care practice called Geriatric Solutions. Geriatric Solutions was about being able to be that patients primary care provider when they were too ill to go see one. We dont always have information about someone before they enter hospice.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics. Data on the pain and symptom impacts are a “useful starting point” for hospice and palliative care providers to shape their trauma-informed care approaches, Kotwal.

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Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

population ages, geriatric nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) can make an impact. The need for geriatric nurses can be explained simply by looking at data highlighting an aging United States. Geriatric nurses are critical to our healthcare workforce.”. Attention for geriatrics. Necessities for geriatrics.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The four-person board includes experts in palliative care, geriatric oncology, health policy , care delivery, predictive analytics and health care innovation from health systems, cancer centers, and research institutions. So we want to prioritize proven strategies from both community and academic centers that are leaders in oncology. “We

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We adopt the philosophy of combining palliative care and geriatrics and primary care together so that we can deliver what the patient needs and try to break down the silos that exist, Walker said. They interact with the various caregivers and clinicians in those settings to get information and be able to respond to those needs.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Having data around CON regulations and their impacts can help inform lawmakers as they develop policies to guard against fraud, waste and abuse, according to recent researchers. “We found that the states that do have CON for hospice seem to be associated with a higher level of quality, even when controlling for ownership and size.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex 00:16 Today we’re delighted to welcome George K u c hel, who is a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics and director of the UConn center on Aging at the University of Connecticut.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

However, he also emphasized the challenge of deploying skilled professionals to the home-based arena, where he said the best providers typically have combined skills in primary care, palliative care and even geriatrics. “We

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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.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Remedying this dilemma could involve providing nursing teams with more information about the patients in general, including their medical diagnoses and past patterns of health care utilization, Singh said.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Scott: The listeners are probably well aware that urinary incontinence is one of the kind of classic geriatric syndrome. Scott: Yeah.

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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. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. The supporter might offer note-taking or they might come and help with interpreting information or they might help in doing some comparative reasoning exercises. Eric: Yeah, I love that too.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

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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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

So, we have had to be thoughtful and innovative about how we’re going to actually ensure that we’re reaching those patients in the ICU with unmet palliative care needs,” said Dr. Laura Gelfman, MD, MPH, Deputy Director of Quality and Clinical Information, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

The company’s chief growth officer, Russell Hilliard, also came over from AccentCare, whereas CEO Mary Austin has worked in the PACE, long term care and geriatrics space since 1986. The company currently operates four PACE centers located in the Northwest and the Midwest, with two more slated to open before the end of the year.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. As is the case for many issues in geriatrics: some of the time, not all the time. I can get you guys that information. And then they can transfer that information to the specialist. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. Anthony Spano: We are very lucky to have Nikki Davis on stage, so I wanted to just open up and give her the chance to tell us a little bit about herself. Anthony, I think this would probably be a good time.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. I think geriatrics very proud of interprofessional care. Whether they have a social worker, a nurse, a physician, an NP on the team, they know what to do with that information. So that’s one idea.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Tell us more about what you mean,” because they give us beautiful information from that.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. And I think a lot of that leads to extreme moral distress. Sunita: Oh, yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex: Yeah, two psychologists talking about psychological issues in palliative care and geriatrics. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I’ll say it.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Role Family Nurse Practitioner A family nurse practitioner (FNP) cares for patients of all ages, from newborn to geriatric. This may involve reviewing their schedule and reviewing their upcoming patients’ information as needed. Family nurse practitioners are essential to delivering healthcare in the United States.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. What was it, 5%? Eric: 2% of the time. Alex: 2% of the time. Abby: Oh, my God, I love it.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 15, 2023

When accessing health-related information, AI-powered chatbots can provide accurate information and direct consumers to relevant health facilities, even in areas with limited resources. Does ChatGPT provide nursing students with a convenient and accessible way to access information and practice clinical skills?

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Diversity Nursing

JANUARY 2, 2025

These professionals bridge the gap between clinical practice and information technology, ensuring healthcare systems are efficient, user-friendly, and support patient care. Geriatric Nurse Practitioner As the global population ages, Geriatric Nurse Practitioners (GNPs) are essential in addressing the unique healthcare needs of older adults.

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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. But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I was automatically drawn to the geriatric population. Seeing that not only could I make a difference, but I could also educate and be an advocate for that geriatric population was key. The largest hospital was an hour away. And this is even more so for the Native American communities in these regions.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. We need that information. This information is so vital. Hospitals should routinely collect functional information in the same way. SNFs should routinely collect functional information the same way.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Part of my proposal is, again, that we can actually use very similar information. Really because of the structure and the nature of equianalgesic tables, similar information with simpler math, can easily be presented to our colleagues. That’s what’s on the equianalgesic tables. I think it’s time to do that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Eric: Here’s our contact information. laugher] Alex: I’m hopeful that there will be some people listening to this who are the future content creators in the geriatrics and palliative care space, and I look forward to what they have to offer. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: BlackRock.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Matthew 04:21 Well, I actually have been teaching, doing sessions about polypharmacy for many years.

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