GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. That put me in the emergency room. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. They just kept at it. Is that your feeling, too?

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I got a background in [inaudible 00:15:46], a background in public health, background in social work. And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living.

Community 97

Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? How can public health and policy experts address these needs, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic which turned our social lives upside down?

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. It isn’t the randomized trials, which are very important, obviously, for the work that all of us do, the work that I do clinically.

IT 95

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. We do talk about healthcare policy.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89