The Clinical Problem Solvers
MARCH 14, 2025
Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network. Epub 2015 Dec 1. Psychiatr Serv.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
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. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day.
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GeriPal
JUNE 29, 2023
This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Allan: 35 years. Eric: 35 years.
GeriPal
JULY 25, 2024
Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. So it’s not just like the patient or the family, but it’s also the healthcare system. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Kara 10:12 Yep.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 7, 2023
I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.
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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