GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You think about the Book of Job, you think of Buddhism, and it’s so foundational to the field of palliative care. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Of course, there’s psychedelics.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. But for me, who’s practicing in North Carolina and not just at the main resource hospital, but also at the smaller hospitals, the community hospital, we look at this across the geography. Scott 11:35 Yeah, I think so.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Rebecca: I think I’ll also add too.

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Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. And oh, guess what? Ann: Yeah, I’ll let Tamra speak if you want.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So, for the two studies, I’ll mention, we use data from the precipitating events project at Yale, which is Tom Gill’s amazing cohort, where they followed a cohort of initially non-disabled community dwell and older adults with monthly measures of function. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: Absolutely.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. And, you know, I’ve seen that some primary care providers, there’s still so much stigma that they don’t feel comfortable or they feel like that managing HIV is somehow too complicated.

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