Do thickened liquids benefit people with swallowing problems? #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 21, 2015
There are a lot of people with swallowing difficulty who are currently getting thickened liquids. For instance, in one study…
The Thickened Liquid Challenge – #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 20, 2015
Our hospice and palliative care team decided this weekend to do the “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This is a simple challenge…
Institutionalized and Interventionalized: the ways we care for the medically fragile
January 17, 2015
by: Diane Stonecipher, RN As a young nurse, some 30 years ago, I worked in a large academic medical center,…
Geri Tech: It’s the little things
January 14, 2015
There’s a lot of interest in using technology to improve the lives of seniors, especially here in the Bay Area…
Choosing life: a story of the value of palliative care
January 14, 2015
by Leanne M. Yanni, MD It’s a name. It comes across in our Electronic Health Record as a consult is…
Will You Wish With Us?
January 13, 2015
By: Kim Evanoski (@CareManage4All) So I am waking up in the dark and, at the end of the day, driving…
Prognostic Factors for Survival in Multiple System Atrophy
January 12, 2015
An 88 year-old male with probable multiple system atrophy-parkinsonism (MSA-P) with at least 4 years of gait instability complicated by…
Let’s Talk About Prognosis
January 8, 2015
GeriPal’s very own Alex Smith recently gave an absolutely fabulous “Ted-like” talk in which he made the statement that “prognosis…
Sudden death with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole while on ACE-inhibitor or ARBs
January 8, 2015
What? It’s already 2015. But, I have so many great articles published in 2014 that I need to post about!…
Back to basics: are we losing sight of what hospice care is all about?
January 7, 2015
by: Amy Getter, a hospice nurse who blogs regularly at hospicediary.com In our ever-challenging and changing medical system, the current…