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Discover Direct Primary Care: An Excellent Choice for Uninsured, Underinsured, and High Deductible Health Plan Holders - Detroit and Royal Oak

Plum Health

Here's why DPC with Plum Health is an excellent choice for you: Affordability: DPC comes at a flat, predictable monthly fee, ensuring budget-friendly healthcare without the worry of surprise bills or meeting high deductibles. Ready to transform your healthcare experience?

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

So I started asking around in terms of even my colleagues and so forth, you read about these little, like you say, paragraphs in books that say something about what you should do with hearing loss and testing for hearing loss, and making sure hearing aids are in place. I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.”

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Five minute appointments. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 And patients and family members tell us that they worry that their clinician is going to be overly focused on that mortality number now.

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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

GeriPal

I first met Thomas when he visited UC Berkeley in the late 90’s after publishing his book, “ The Undertaking: Stories from the Dismal Trade.” We cover a wide range on this topic, weaving in our own stories of loss with Thomas’s experiences, stories, and poems from years of caring for families after their loved one’s have died.

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