GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She falls and breaks her hip. She has advance dementia.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s the clinicians on the rounding team, yes, but also the multidisciplinary team is really important, how they support the patient, the family, the doctors, the nurses, but also how the broader institutional structures such as ethics committees, et cetera, how they support. Is that right too?

Hospital 125

Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Kara 10:43 Those are inpatient consults? Eric 10:44 No, all consults. Just if you look at all consults.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106