GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

Screening 120

Screening IT Family Families 120

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. Advance care planning is a start. Hillary: I certainly agree lots to think about.

Community 96

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?”

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most palliative care clinicians would refer back to their primary care provider and not change their hydrochlorothiazide dose or add another agent. The thing I want most is more research in this space to be able to integrate addiction treatment into palliative care. Most oncologists would say no.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. Tom: Do you think they relayed that info to the primary care [inaudible 00:34:14]. Tom: Yeah, I think it is different. Corita: They absolutely did.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice.

IT 67

IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. and social media endorse treatments that are potentially harmful and have little to no evidence of benefit, or have only been studied in animals. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. And I wrote a paper a couple years ago, entitled Forced to Choose: When Medicare Policy Disrupts End of Life Care. Ruth: And if that is considered a skilled intervention, it could be reimbursed. Then we wouldn’t play that game of being rehabbed to death.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. In the primary care practices that received the advance care planning intervention, rates of advance care planning were higher (about double). Eric 06:26 Great.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse. And so we have basic treatments for these issues that we train oncology clinicians to bring up in clinic practice. We just don’t have time. You may have 30 minutes. I have 15 minutes to see a patient and follow up with cancer.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130