The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

What practical strategies would you recommend for implementing resistance training in community or home-based settings? For older adults, the YMCA’s Silver Sneakers Program is a fantastic community resource. Many older adults may have limited access to training facilities or experience with resistance training.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, educator, or simply curious about autism, this post aims to provide a comprehensive overview of what autism is and what it means for individuals and their families. The post Demystifying Autism: Understanding the Spectrum appeared first on Family Physicians of Greeley, PLLP.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Osman Saleem Osman Saleem, MD Medical Director, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo We’re honored to host, and even launch, the careers of so many incredible healthcare professionals who are not only experts in their field but also dedicated to the health and vitality of their community. Doing so changes your perspective and mindset.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

“What we’ve seen to make it really work is you either have to be in the hospital, where we’ve taken over palliative care in the hospital, or you have to be contracted with managed care and get it at some kind of risk, because community-based palliative care is very difficult to make operate right now from a profitable [perspective].”

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%. And I don’t know where if we’re there yet.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. They were all community dwelling; this wasn’t focused on people who were in skilled nursing facilities or dementia care units or those sorts of settings.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. This is not to mention the significant harms that we can expect to see shortly from unsafe self-induced abortions and from delays in care for nonviable pregnancies due to limitations placed on healthcare professionals.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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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. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Fayron Epps, who is associate professor and director of Community and Research Engagement at the School of Nursing at Emory. Why this focus? Karen: Thank you. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. And the sort of the ask was, “Oh yeah, you can talk to the family, right?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. I’ve worked in palliative care for years, and there’s some times where I’m in the family meeting, I’m facilitating the family meeting, and then I’m reporting out to the referring doctors, and I say, what happened?

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country. Alex: Psychedelics, promise and pitfalls.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. In their communities? I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. Sarah 03:57 Yeah, it’s a pretty big problem for older adults, I’d say in community dwellers. It’s one out of two.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. It’s by choice, just like in the community.

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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 . 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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous. The family dynamics are different though. It’s also they can’t separate from their families.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. For instance, Friday night, Saturday night parties are of community wide. Is that your feeling, too?

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They’re starting to decompose even in the toes and fingers, and we’ll sit there and tell their family, we think they’re suffering, because we are suffering watching them, and we want them to make a decision that’ll make us feel better and take the suffering away as quickly as possible. What are you seeing?”

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. Jerry: I would just add that geriatrics is an amazing community. And I love this community. Both of us, we were attracted early and we were kept hooked into the field and that there’s some magic in that. ” I did love that line.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Statistical significance level was accepted as p<0.05.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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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. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It is imperative for policy makers, school administrators, healthcare professionals, and parents to become aware of these emerging dangers and take appropriate steps, like what has been done for the opioid epidemic. Fam Med Community Health. the misuse of so-called “study drugs”, or prescription stimulants, on college campuses).

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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