GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. Who will emerge victorious?

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Is this our role?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. 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.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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).

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Eric 18:39 Yeah, I do worry a little bit because I recently had a primary care appointment. Well, there’s my complaint. I just had lab tests done.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

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. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119