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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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

JANUARY 20, 2023

He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. ” How hard would it be for every medical director, every director of nurses, every administrator to know the first and last name of every CNA who works in that building? Great to be back.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us.

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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

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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