GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. And one question I always ask of my audience is, if I could tell you you’re going to have dementia today, what do you want to know?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Alex: Thank you. Eric: Okay.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

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Patients Medical Student Patient-Centered Emergency Room 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I could walk down the hall and get information. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early.

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Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 137