GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. You’ve all read Louise Aronson’s book. And finally the big thing was the match.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. 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.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And following these guidelines is really important because geriatric and palliative care related problems are really common. To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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?

Hospital 132

Hospital Patient-Centered Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. And so you could say that’s sort of starting the normalizing that process of advance care planning. And I would say too, as a primary care provider, it really doesn’t take that long to ask people about a surrogate decision maker.

Illness 72

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I am wondering whether it’s the conversations and preparation that’s primary care providers and outpatient providers are having with a lot of these patients and families to either prevent an ICU admission or potentially address their goals, such that they don’t go into the ICU. Julien: Absolutely. All the above.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Certainly a lot of communities we’re thinking about LA right now and the collective trauma that they’re experiencing from the fires. But you can also think about the collective trauma that we might experience from kind of these big world events, like the pandemic, from major wars or disasters.

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Patient-Centered IT Screening Individual 66

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. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. I mean, treatment is really best done in a chronic or continuity setting, whether it’s in a primary care setting or some other.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94