GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

ISNPs are Medicare Advantage plans that are designed to serve beneficiaries who live in skilled nursing facilities. In addition, they offer very complementary service lines with their PACE programming, their home health and hospice programming and their geriatric practice.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. ” What we should say to our nurses is, “Thank you for letting me know.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many incarcerated seniors who could benefit from palliative care do not receive adequate access or referrals to these services, according to Katherine Supiano, associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. The prison system was never designed to become a nursing home or hospice, but it has become one.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2023

The company employs nurse practitioners and other clinicians to provide palliative care in the home. At the same time, PalliCare helps nurse practitioners interested in setting up their own palliative care practices. We’re growing pretty exponentially right now, especially in skilled facilities like nursing homes and such.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Sue Britton was the first nurse hired on that palliative care unit. Alex 01:08 And we’re delighted to welcome Sue Britton, who was the first nurse in the very first palliative care unit in Quebec at the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1975. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho. Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too? Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When new nurse practitioners graduate from school, they’re ready to hit the ground running and find jobs in their respective areas of specialization. Here are five ideas for nurse practitioners keen to be their own boss. We find NPs in acute care, family practice, cardiology , neurology, and all clinical settings.

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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. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. Donovan discusses the growth of “mood stabilizers/antiepileptics” (e.g.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 31, 2023

Nursing homes with the highest proportion of Black residents have the greatest number of hospitalizations and emergency department visits, according to a new study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. nursing homes using national datasets from 2019.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. nursing homes.

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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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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Recipients of home health and hospice distinction must demonstrate their ability to proactively ensure patient safety and provide goal-concordant care, in addition to implementing four evidence-based practices in geriatric care known as the “4Ms”: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility. It’s very patient-centered care.”

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recently, nurses have navigated their careers through a global pandemic, a travel nursing boom, supply issues, and continue to face an ongoing nursing shortage. Nearly 30% of nurses considered leaving the profession in 2021, compared to 11% in 2020, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Ramona Rhodes, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doctor, and member of the Board of Directors for the American Geriatric Society.

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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. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision. And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. What happens after hours if you have an emergency in your home? How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Does the hospice offer continuous home care?

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

We need good nurse practitioners. Alex: Nursing homes. laugher] Alex: I’m hopeful that there will be some people listening to this who are the future content creators in the geriatrics and palliative care space, and I look forward to what they have to offer. Attendee 13: I am worried about workforce shortage.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Lauren: Hi.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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

MAY 18, 2023

The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people. We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast.

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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. . You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Heather.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and a T-32 research fellow in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics. He’s a Geriatrician Palliative Care Clinician Researcher, also in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. The head nurse spoke up. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

According to the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society," b y the year 2025, an estimated 7.2 Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Welcome back to GeriPal, Tony.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

September’s Healthy Aging Month designation brings an awareness for nurses who want to offer appropriate care for their aging patients and who also want to be mindful of healthy aging practices for their own health. ” Gerontological nurses also adapt their approach to tune into the ways older adults thrive, she says.

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