GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Individual 85

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. And I’ve gotten really close to that family.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. Alex 06:05 And, oh, for that family, it was so meaningful. That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah. Eric 06:07 Yeah.

Family 93

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. And one of the things was, “You’re telling us stuff we already know”, and also, “I’m going to critique you in that you didn’t provide any solutions.”

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? ” We can still bias working in that space, improve the experience of patients and their family members.

Patient-Centered 111

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. So it was a cluster randomized trial.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you. Well, how can I be.

IT 87

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And that’s in addition to the financial, emotional companionship, and psychosocial support that spouses typically provide.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

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.” Everything.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding.

Patient-Centered 108

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108

GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The impact on families. But turns out that Jan1 and its family are all very similar. I have used Moderna or all of mine and in my family I do okay with the vaccine, which means that I probably am not mounting enough response. Year four, year four of COVID What are you hoping in 2025, Lona? The impact on. I think that was.

Vaccination 127

Vaccination IT Patient-Centered Patients 127