GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. And I think that’s when I got hooked on how do we improve care, in my case again, for kids and families, but also for us, the providers. I can figure out how to provide care in this way.

IT 102

IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me. All the time. ;).

Illness 102

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. Alex: Welcome.

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IT Provider Patients Family 115

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. Haider: Yeah, this is a special song.

Patient-Centered 106

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. When I was about nine-years-old, they gave me a book of poems of Edna St. In school, I was asked to write a book report, and instead of writing a book report, I wrote a poem that went.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 126

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Yeah my life totally sucked because I was double booked. I’m just actually providing really good primary health care. I assume most of you in here are not super specialized doing lung transplants and needing a helipad and tertiary-care hospital. Say I’m having a special. Trying to get out. It’s pretty good.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246