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.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

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.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. So, information from, like, a family member, spouse, or a son or daughter.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” I’m not kidding like my first family picture with my parents was when I was 45.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

And this was in 2015 when I started to think about this project. And in these cases of obstetric complications with doctors literally not doing what was standard practice last month or before the ban, and not knowing whether they would be able to defend themselves for helping a woman come through a miscarriage by using Pitocin for example.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19