My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

And yet, the global health sector receives less than 1% of all climate adaptation finance. Without closing this gap, healthcare systems everywhere will struggle to meet rising demands, especially in vulnerable communities where climate change is accelerating inequality and suffering. So what’s the path forward? Alcayna et al.

Healthcare Professional 52

Healthcare Professional Healthcare Finance Education 52

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.

Community 96

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. So it matters a lot to the person, to their family, to the community.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’m not going to talk about finances. It might be a hired caregiver, it might be a social worker in the community or other person who may not identify with that word friend or family. And things that we just don’t think about and we don’t talk about in the hospital, right? I’m the doctor.

Family 98

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . What, published in JAMA IM? James: Yeah.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

You know, I work in the VA and we have somebody who doesn’t have the finances to support a stay in a nursing home and they’re on hospice. It’s a very, I think, appropriate amount that people end up using that particular benefit. And it’s amazing. And we have amazing attendance.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? But yet the changes we saw, the transitions we saw, but we didn’t transition the care. We didn’t respond.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60