GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? Occasionally, people will come to me and say, like when I’m meeting them in the clinic and say, “Hey, we Googled you. The best ideas for research come from my clinical experience. So humor like this has a lot of potential benefits.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. Eric 07:03 Yeah, it’s hard because you can also think about it, let’s say, because we see palliative heart failure clinics. Are there any palliative care psychiatry clinics?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. Which is… In fact, I was approached by the Mayo Clinic recently.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We just couldn’t find one that quite fit our needs, and I’m sure that they differ to some extent by the clinical context, so we reviewed a bunch of categorizations that were in the literature and this was the most parsimonious group that we could come up with, that I thought captured the core elements of spirituality.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is?

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? They’re looking at difficult outcomes, utilization outcomes, right? Like, should we be doing advance care planning?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. ” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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