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 my hypothesis is that’s because it’s no longer the individual managing their own diabetes, it’s the nursing home staff managing their diabetes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly. And the number of calls for falls dropped.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their communities? And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.” With their regular providers?

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Recognizing Hypertensive Emergencies The end-organ dysfunction component of this diagnosis presents as particular symptoms, physical exam findings, or laboratory and imaging results. Evaluation consists of lab studies, including CBC, CMP, BNP, troponin, UA, UDS, TSH with reflex to T4, and urine pregnancy test for individuals with a uterus.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And I spent the past couple years just collecting data from several hundred early palliative care patients and did a network analysis, which basically just looks at the Correlations between different constructs, whether they’re physical, emotional, social or spiritual. Sorry, Demoralization and chronic pain. Because we don’t.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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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? Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. And I believe it needs the community. And the community came in.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Comprehensive Primary Care for Michigan Communities What sets this clinic apart is its comprehensive approach to primary care. Whether you need a routine physical, vaccination, or management of a chronic illness, this clinic has you covered with a focus on holistic and individualized care. Are virtual appointments available?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

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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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

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. 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. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. We really need to figure out who we are in the world and that takes your physical identity, your sexual identity, your vocational goals. Eric: Yeah. All of a sudden, I was like, wow. It’s everywhere.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. ” So lo and behold, that’s how I met Thor.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. It’s by choice, just like in the community. Michele: Thank you for having me. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. ” So lo and behold, that’s how I met Thor.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

geographic location, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical and mental disabilities, pregnancy status, lactation status, and co-morbidity) may impact outcomes. FDA encourages sponsors to consult patients and healthcare providers to assist in developing such strategies. by sex, age or by genetic variations).

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment. What might be contributing?”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. There was no communication on my part that was anything intolerable about my situation. Eric: And let me just clarify.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

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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. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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