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. This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Palliative Care conference Q&A with Tina Taylor, Vice President of Palliative Care Compassus and Christina Andrews, Director of Professional Services at Axxess. The Q&A took place on April 27, 2022.

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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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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 know that addressing issues related to quality of hospice care is timely and critical to state (and also federal) lawmakers,” Cagle told Hospice News in an email.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Just found that this was a really easy, low budget way of informing people about the medication, about the potential harms, and they were a captive audience in the hospital. All we were doing providing information and we did give a brief overview via email to the clinicians, basically saying, hey, your patients might come in with this.

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Pallimed

JULY 11, 2022

I did an informal poll on Twitter and less than half of respondents ranked HPM in the top 10. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age! Spread the word! Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is the fifth largest medical subspecialty! If rheumatology is on there, so are we.

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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

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. Eric: And Alex, I have a feeling I’m going to love this podcast. Who do we have with us today?

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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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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. Goldilocks zone). Nadine: Thank you, guys.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. And this paper really gave us some important insights into older adults’ priorities about medication use that can inform these conversations. Eric: Can I ask? Elizabeth: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. So, through our lab, we’re looking at characteristics of saliva and the oral microbiome, and if we could potentially use that as a risk indicator for pneumonia development, to kind of help inform our decision making about our recommendations. Nicole: Yeah, it was huge.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

McMahon ascended to the role in 2021, serving in various other positions at UnitedHealth Group since 2003, including executive vice president of enterprise operations and CEO of Optum Rx, among other management positions in finance, information technology and operations. Lucie, as well as at Parkway Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

MARCH 30, 2022

13 new standards and norms reached consensus, relating to emerging specialisms such as neonatal, geriatric and dementia palliative care, and recommendations for better access to national information sources and the use of digital health records.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 24, 2022

To really specialise, it is important to focus your skill development and to seek additional qualifications and evidence-based practice that is informed by recent research with older people- as it’s a field that is increasing rapidly. Geriatric complications and preventable complications. Meet Dr Kasia Bail! dr kasia bail.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This is according to recent research findings, which could help inform approaches to care under the new Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model. Reuben also serves as chief of the division of geriatrics UCLA Health. They often have long periods of caregiving.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:56 And returning guest, Vicki Jackson, who’s a palliative care doc, chief of the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at MGH , professor at Harvard Medical School, and co director of the Harvard Medical School center for Palliative Care. But watch out! Who will emerge victorious? Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Kristine: I like to tease my geriatric friends about age. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. The post Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric, what do you think your average is for the mini?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

People are not always well informed and have a mix of beliefs, born out of individual experiences, family background, and culture. Lyle Fettig is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. Maybe not every day, but it happens a lot.

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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. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We’re representing the American Geriatric Society today and we are delighted to be here in the podcast. So first, I want to thank you and commend you for what you have contributed to the American Geriatric society and to all of our collective learning. In geriatrics. Medina Walpole. Annie 01:42 Hi, everyone. So surprise.

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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

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? They got feedback.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Summary Transcript CME Summary I was very proud to use the word apotheosis on todays podcast. See if you can pick out the moment. I say something like, Palliative care is, in many ways, the apotheosis of great palliative care. Homelessness?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Daniel Schwartz: It’s a pleasure to be here representing Elara Caring.

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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. The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Naomi 01:09 Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. Alex: Oh no.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

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. . Summary Transcript Summary. This was in part due to the tremendous support of the National Institute on Aging. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. All hands go up. All hands go down.

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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. Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Summary Transcript Summary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease) , which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver.

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