2016 Complication Families Healthcare Professional 
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.
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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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Katie: Awesome.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative
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. How do you make decisions about work and family? Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey.
GeriPal
MARCH 30, 2023
Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.
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. Four percent. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.
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