GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars.

IT 102

IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. I highly encourage you.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

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? Are there any tools? Do we have any data?

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. Number one, number of days you are in the community.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The report found that the number of potential caregivers for an individual 80 or older will decrease significantly by 2050. In 2024, the Alzheimer’s Association issued a report projecting a jump in dementia cases in the U.S.

Patients 52

Patients Family Families Diagnosis 52