GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Essentially we’re testing the early integrated palliative care model, which is monthly visits with a specialty trained palliative care physician or advanced practice provider for patients who are diagnosed with advanced non small cell lung cancer. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. So those social workers were involved.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

So these different standardized measures that patients can complete either right before their appointment or during their appointment right before they see the doctor or something like this, and it’s kind of standardized. Elissa: I want to push back on this a little bit too, if you don’t mind. Eric: Go ahead. Sure, yeah.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). Devika: That’s right. Eric: That’s helpful.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Stupid theory.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119