GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. 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? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir. Samir: Thanks, Alex and Eric.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g., Increased quality of patient-provider communication, including offering behavioral counseling when needed, may avert unnecessary prescriptions. Fam Med Community Health. 2021 Jan;9(1):e000374. Pediatrics.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . 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.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

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. It’s really a pretty traumatic experience for a lot of patients and families. And I had a blast playing Take the Money and Run!

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Family Families IT Patients 106

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. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? Primary outcome was quality of life.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then I got online as a patient advocate and started connecting with the brain tumor community on social media and Facebook and Twitter, and actually started working in the healthcare space, in palliative care advocacy, for a palliative care advocacy organization in California, which is where I’m based, about eight years ago.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Dataset: Health administrative data from 380,124 Quebecers between 1996 and 2016. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care 130

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. Health Survey for England 2016: Prescribed Medicines.; Efficacy and safety of statin therapy in older people: a meta-analysis of individual participant data from 28 randomised controlled trials.

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Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic 40

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

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.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125