GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice.

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Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

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. Of these interventions in those individuals. Cant we skip all this and just send some blood-based biomarkers? Well, there’s my complaint.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles. It’s a more sensitive subject.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. And to keep it short work for an article. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. We got rid of all these psychotropic medications and this person … one individual had had a vascular dementia. Eric: Yeah.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60