GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 8, 2025

Highlighting these specialties draws candidates to focused opportunities such as: Acute care : Positions in the ICU, ER, and critical care units requiring fast-paced, high-skill work. Long-term care : Geriatric, hospice, and home health settings offering continuity of care.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

New Jersey-headquartered BoldAge PACE is owned and operated by former Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care CEO Todd Stern, also a former AccentCare executive, and Dan Czermak, founder of Acute Health Systems and Beacon of Life.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Making the decision that it’s time for your elderly parent to move into a long-term care facility is never easy, yet in some instances it is essential if your parent needs care you might not be able to offer. Selecting the right long-term care facility will impact your parent’s experience.

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Elder Care Matters

MARCH 15, 2025

Learn about the important role of a geriatric care manager in Elder Care. The post Understanding the Role of a Geriatric Care Manager in Elder Care appeared first on Elder Care Directory - ElderCareMatters.com.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Anne: Great to be here.

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Boca Home Care Services

MARCH 6, 2022

This line of thought is actually supported by the American Geriatrics Society which has strict guidelines in place as to how medical practitioners should manage chronic back pain conditions in their elderly patients. This, among other things, includes administering opioid medications to geriatric patients with different health conditions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. So, it really kind of depends on, I think, also level of overall status, frailty, other factors like that.

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Diversity Nursing

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Director of Nursing is a qualified Nurse who is often called upon to advise in difficult, sensitive or long-term care situations. pain medications or other support); assist with delivery and provide care. Average Annual Salary- $117,996 9. Average Annual Salary- $104,000 20.

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Seasons Hospice

MAY 21, 2024

Shortage of Providers In some regions, especially rural areas, there may be a shortage of dental providers who accept Medicaid or offer affordable dental care for seniors. Geriatric Dentistry Programs Increasing the number of dentists trained in geriatric dentistry can help meet the unique oral health needs of older adults.

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HPNA podcast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

She has presented at regional and national meetings on a variety of topics related to serious and advanced illness as well as operation of community-based programs and has served on the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Task Force for Quality, and on the Home-Based Workgroup for the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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Caregiver Support Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Nurses: The Heartbeat of Healthcare Nursing is one of the most highly respected and rewarding professions in medicine, serving direct patient care while often being the first to detect changes in a patient’s condition.

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

These tasks include creating patient care plans, administering medications, and performing diagnostic tests. They play a key role in coordinating patient care and may specialize in areas like geriatrics or palliative care. 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

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. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? They’ve all been laid out for you.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. It’s taken a lot of time and work together, but it’s going to be worth it for the patients,” said Schwartz. “We

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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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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As the study explains, nursing homes are incentivized to hospitalize residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid because those patients can later return to the nursing home with a higher-paying Medicare benefit before transitioning back to long-term care with lower Medicaid day rates.

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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. Jasmine: Goal four is to create a more rational and robust plan financing system, and that was focused really on establishing a federal long-term care benefit. I hope I got that right.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Additionally, every year, NPTM has a specific focus, with 2024 aimed at an area crucial in the long-term care environment: fall prevention. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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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. I was on service and I had a geriatrics fellow and a palliative care fellow. So I got the white board and I wrote advance care planning. Rebecca: Yeah.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. The realities of today’s long-term care environment. The proposed requirements do not reflect LPNs in the HPRD.

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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

MAY 26, 2022

So if you remember all these vaccine allocation plans where you had the first tier maybe for much older adults or people in long term care facilities or something, and then the second tier might have been people over 50 or people working in highly exposed jobs. The post Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment?

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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 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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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Scott, I think you have a song request before we talk about the JAMA piece and default palliative care. Good to see you. Alex: And as mentioned earlier, Ashwin Kotwal is joining us as a guest host. Ashwin, welcome back.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The STEADI Initiative offers a coordinated approach to implementing the American and British Geriatrics Societies’ Clinical Practice Guidelines for fall prevention. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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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. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Welcome, Karl. Karl: Thanks for having me.

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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. It’s just not quite as quick or effective as they had desired in their advanced directive. Alex 12:41 We should say for our listeners too.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. Bill 45:17 Well, Louise touched on one, which I’ve been a big fan of, and I think anyone doing ICU training should spend some time in a long term care facility to begin to see the benefits of their work.

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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. Eric: So as long as Medicare is not paying for the… Or Medicaid, I guess, for nursing. Long-term care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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. Was trazodone, something that we sort of, you know, typically consider to be a safer geriatric drug. Sarah 07:37 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: First is Darrell Owens, who’s Associate Medical Director of Palliative Care at the University of Washington Northwest Campus. Alex: And second is Jim Wright, who is medical director of two long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in Richmond, Virginia: Our Lady of Hope and Westminster Canterbury.

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