GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. In the community? So let’s put a pin in that.

Illness 52

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 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

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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

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” I’m not going to talk about finances.

Families 98

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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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

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JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? 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. Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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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? We got rid of all these psychotropic medications and this person … one individual had had a vascular dementia.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60