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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions. And a screening is one to two simple sentences to identify need in that or distress in that domain.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

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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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

In their communities? If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.” So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. With their regular providers?

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

So it really helped form community between patients and helped build community with the palliative team that was involved. Now they’re getting psychedelic experiences, you know, and transformation in a consulting office. They communicated by looking at a letter screen and it would track his eye movements.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. But you’ve talked to people who are doing palliative care consults right now and I think have learned a lot about what this looks like in practice in terms of referral processes. Connie 21:45 Right, right. right there.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

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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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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