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

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. Complicated grief? Did the caregiver feel heard and understood?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

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

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

During this day I observed one medication abortion administration and two aspiration abortion procedures, the second of which was complicated by hemorrhage (which was swiftly controlled). I hope to continue my involvement with such an inspiring group of leaders who value community, collaboration, and commitment to service.

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Medical Student Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 40

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

JANUARY 26, 2023

I was in clinic the other day working with a trainee, and we saw a few patients together, and they happened to be very healthy, community dwelling, older adults, quite active. You go into this community, perform this study, you leave. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? So I want to share a little anecdote.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

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

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. But for me, who’s practicing in North Carolina and not just at the main resource hospital, but also at the smaller hospitals, the community hospital, we look at this across the geography.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We need this type of push to make us feel that we are part of a community and we are part of a movement and things are changing because we are around. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. Relationships are usually more complicated. Eric 28:10 Eric, it’s been 20 years. And I asked, why did you choose this? But back to the point. You’re coming back.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I think it’s really, really complicated. Lauren: Really?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. And oh, guess what? Ann: Yeah, I’ll let Tamra speak if you want.

Patient-Centered 133

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. I mean, one is the brilliance of your question, when suffering comes up, to asking people to tell you more. Of course, there’s psychedelics. There’s mind-body medicine.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. Jennifer: I think it’s such a complicated question. And for the most part, it’s really hard to start building an evidence base in the community setting. ” Right? But we have to.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. 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 we don’t talk about it as much. Eric: Yeah.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 103

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. Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. It’s not just in the next couple weeks or months. James 26:49 Exactly.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. ” I’m like “Do you really want to like complicate your life? Just stop right now.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246