GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from.

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