GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?”

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Ryan: I started in 2011. Eric: How does it feel like for you, Ryan, since 2011, you’ve had different roles? I’ve talked to, I don’t know if you know Houman Javedan from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. Heather: Sure.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. These are families who are in distress. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults.

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Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. He recommends memory cafes to other people with dementia and their families. “I come in now and it’s like, it’s family, it’s a big, extended family. I get to meet them.

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Patients Family Families Diagnosis 52