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! Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too?

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. J Am Geriatr Soc. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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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

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 have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So I got the white board and I wrote advance care planning.

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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. There have been nursing homes 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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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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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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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). RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g.

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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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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. I got a question then, because I see one in 12 nursing home patients with dementia are placed on thickened liquids. Eric: Oh yeah. I see this in a lot in dementia.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path? Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. 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.

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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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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Within weeks of Judy’s death, her family evicted Wetzel from the home they shared. Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care. I knew that both of those were long-term conditions that were likely to deteriorate over time,” Boyd says.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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 nursing homes. About one out of every three older adults falls each year in the nursing home that’s higher.

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