GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. And then number five, really proactive care transitions planning out of the gate on day one.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

So you have the consultation. But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. Did their pain management last throughout that entire session?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. Eric: So how do you put that all together?

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So this is a practical, really basic idea that can be applied to clinical practice. DorAnne 30:25 I also wanna make a shout out for pain and symptom management with social work and chaplains. So we totally forget that all of us are symptom managers as well. Sometimes we all listen to the initial consult.

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Screening IT Families Family 119

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. We’re not trained to consider this to be part of pain management. Should they?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. And then with collaboration with addiction medicine, we started the clinic, myself and a pharmacist, at just half a day a week.

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