Geriatrics Medicare Ventilator 
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. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
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.
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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
So the amount of dollars per Medicare beneficiary in the last six months of life varies more than twofold from one region of the country to the other region of the country. I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” So as a researcher, that’s the way we think too.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
It’s not the tool itself, it’s that doctors are handing out POLSTs to people at they’re welcome to Medicare or annual wellness exams. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. People who just want to default treatment. Don’t give that person a POLST.
GeriPal
JULY 20, 2023
Advocate for the CONNECT for Health Act, which would permanently expand access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries: [link] Much more on this podcast, including puzzling out who the characters in Space Oddity by David Bowie might represent in an extended analogy to telehealth. Alex: Hope so. Alex: And that was during the pandemic.
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