GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Devika Nair and Rasheeda Hall talk about their JAGS article highlighting updates from nephrology in the care of older adults, including a link to this new eGFR calculator that does NOT include race. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. We are Seeing referrals at an earlier time point, especially at a point that I feel that I can really help a patient.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Most oncologists would say no. Should they?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I mean, we work at a different part of the health system a lot of times, although we have acute care therapists who do the same thing, but the gap in information flow is similar. So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: Yep.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

But in California where I practice medical aid and dying is legal and similar to other issues that are controversial in some places, many physicians do not prescribe or do visits for medical aid and dying consultations. And how are you going to know that when you’re just getting random referrals from teaching hospitals, for example?

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