GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And I can only imagine that’s even more complicated in the cancer patient population, where we’re asking them to do so many other things as well.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their communities? It used to be a much more complicated model. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.” With their regular providers? David: Right. David: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How to make your voice heard and get involved.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Imaging and other diagnostic studies can consist of chest x-ray, EKG, renal ultrasound with doppler, voiding cystourethrography, renal arteriography, echocardiogram, and MRI/MRA/CT of the brain/neck if neurologic complications are involved (Kamat 2024; Patel 2012).

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Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

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? Eric: Okay.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. NCP guideline, standard consultation.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 64

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . And I believe it needs the community. Raj: So in Kerala, because it started with the involvement of laypeople, we included the community in care because the existing system had no space for this.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 116

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. For instance, Friday night, Saturday night parties are of community wide. And she never confessed. David 11:27 It still is.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 100

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. Eric: Yeah. What are the patients that we remember?

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IT Families Family Illness 83

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. This is not a process where they can see into the future around what complications or challenges may arise, but this is the world that we live in and we can anticipate that. That can all start with you.”

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent years, pressures to decrease hospital length of stay and increase throughput, the rate at which patients are moved in and out of the system has contributed to a culture in many acute care environments where physical therapy functions primarily as a consultation service for discharge planning. And oh, guess what?

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There’s obviously private hospitals, academic hospitals, community hospitals. When Eric and I were doing those… Well, many people were doing these telepalliative care consults in New York at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital remotely during COVID. And he’s such a loss to the palliative care community.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 126

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? How do you see the light? It just depends.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. And making most I can do, I can use my mouth even though I only have six fingers here. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Alex 10:40 Wow.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

What I often hear, grief, that normal, often, and we just had Holly Prigerson on the podcast talk about complicated grief, but grief in itself, that reaction, that is often triggered by loss. And I think that’s not only a personal, psychological, spiritual, but it’s also social as well. Eric: And how does that differ from grief?

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 103

PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Complications that you should be aware of include bacteremia, endocarditis, septic arthritis, or osteomyelitis. It’s still often done out in the community. You may see fever and other systemic symptoms, and cellulitis and erysipelas, especially in children, are nearly Always unilateral. Bilateral red limbs?

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IT Patients Diagnosis Clinic 59