GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Eric: And Laurie for this patient, were you the outpatient provider? Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Gretchen: Yeah, I think probably the underlying story here is that I’m really good at doing negative randomized clinical trials, but there is a good thing about doing a big clinical trial, which is that you get tons of data even if you don’t end up with the result that you want. We hope you enjoy this episode.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. People saw that there were people who needed to have supportive care, didn’t need to have the level of nursing that was provided in nursing homes, and there was money to be made.

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Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. The first guest is Liz Salmi. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere. Liz: That’s right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I am wondering whether it’s the conversations and preparation that’s primary care providers and outpatient providers are having with a lot of these patients and families to either prevent an ICU admission or potentially address their goals, such that they don’t go into the ICU. Alex: Bye everybody.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. Schedules of Controlled Substances: Rescheduling of Marijuana, 89 Fed. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 24. NPRM at 44,607. Basis at 7-8; NPRM at 44,614. Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. We do talk about healthcare policy. We do a lot of clinical focused discussions.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And that’s just one example of how, especially when you’re on the clinical side, talking about it as a science and talking about it to scientist pain is very, very clean.

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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.” Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. And I also think, we still operate under pay for… We get paid for the services we provide, right? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Does this issue ring true to you clinically? Teva, I want to go to you. Alex 10:44 No.

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