GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. Is that right?

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

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. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.”

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Here’s another clinician saying, “I ignored a patient’s tears and gave a speech about cardiac physiology during a family meeting.” I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. I think it was just sort of commentary that I had running in my head about what is the real utility of this radar?

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

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.” Malaz: I love it.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125