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Finally, we discuss Michelle Oddens study, which used a target trial emulation approach to investigate the effects of deprescribing antihypertensive medications on cognitive function in nursinghome residents. Here’s some information about deprescribing, here’s some information about these medicines.
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.
Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursinghome provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. Eric: Can I ask? Eric: Yeah.
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.
When I’m on nursinghome call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursinghome or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.
Alex: Nursinghomes. 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. Eric: BlackRock.
So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. I got a question then, because I see one in 12 nursinghome patients with dementia are placed on thickened liquids. I think it’s around one in 12 nursinghome patients But it’s a lot. Eric: Oh yeah. I see this in a lot in dementia. Eric: Great.
Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. We’re going to be talking about trauma informed care.
You may also identify reports published by governing bodies and potential third parties (such as nursinghome abuse lawyers ) if a facility has been investigated. Pay careful attention to reviews left by residents or family members of residents that discuss their experiences.
Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursinghome care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward NursingHome Quality Coalition.
As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursinghome residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursinghome. Let it be (hint hint).
It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Anne: Right.
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First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursinghome clinicians versus a clinical guideline. ” What we should say to our nurses is, “Thank you for letting me know.
Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursinghomes. The emergency physician knows it’s not new information. Corita 18:01 Into nursinghomes, you know.
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursinghome or assisted living facility. This study explored nursinghome organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.
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The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people. We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast.
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. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Welcome back, Rebecca.
Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursinghomes. HPRD—and nurse aides (NAs)—2.45 Several nursinghomes have been operating at critically minimal staffing levels for years calling for the necessity of some form of staffing level floor.
Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and a T-32 research fellow in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics. He’s a Geriatrician Palliative Care Clinician Researcher, also in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, James.
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.
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. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.
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. She had a respiratory arrest, and the nurse was really distraught. And that helps us get to the decision.
In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursinghomes? Kate: Yeah, the nursinghomes.
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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.
That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursinghomes? We need that information.
David 12:31 Yeah, if you believe the results of an informal. And maybe Eloise, like, in your Stanford perspective as a nurse practitioner, not in, like, your cannabis clinic perspective, I’m guessing. They set up a medical cannabis clinic, has some great slides and information. Where can we get good information?
They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. Michele: So that number’s really growing. The doors aren’t locked.
But I think what we’re missing a lot of information on what Joe is talking about is just how much variation there is in that within both non-profit and for-profit, and I think these issues are coming up in non-profit hospices as well, and we just don’t have the data because the information is not reported to anybody.
She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.
She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.
You’re getting them with a little teeny slice of their information and you’re just trying to build some willingness for them to hear more. In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. There are 86-year-olds living in a nursinghome with frailty, who I say, “I’m a geriatrician.”
Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. There have been nursinghomes that have been sued for patient chokes on some food is DNR DNI, and nobody goes to help the patient perform a simple Heimlich because they’re DNR DN I.
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I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursinghome health center. And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. That dawned on me.
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.
Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursinghomes.
Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursinghome level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Good to be here.
Geriatrics. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. I’ll tell you, when I first started out, I was using very advanced techniques when we first started doing it with our nurses and our hospitalists and our social workers. Prof Case Manag.
Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursinghome with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursinghome. I could walk down the hall and get information. And I was terrified.
Eric 02:48 Well, I want to thank you for joining us because you’ve done a lot of the studies around falls and fractures and like, how we think about, especially like in, in frailer older adults, those in nursinghomes. About one out of every three older adults falls each year in the nursinghome that’s higher.
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