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Personalized Diabetes Treatment Plans: How Connecticut Specialists Approach Care

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Have a Diabetes Consultation Your first visit with a diabetes specialist may involve a physical exam. Those goals could include reaching a healthy blood pressure, lowering your cholesterol levels or managing complications associated with diabetes. Ask for More Support, if You Need It Managing diabetes can be hard.

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Stump the VitalTalk Communication Experts: Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey

GeriPal

During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “ Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.” Why did you all decide to write an updated book on navigating communication with serious ill patients? Anne, welcome back.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations. Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. What’s your favorite book? He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones.

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