GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. We need that information. This information is so vital.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. Where do we go with all of this information?

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Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. If it was going to be for 48 hours to get them through a community acquired pneumonia. We do have the information of both our emergent call center and our electronic methods to access those forms. Do you find that helpful, that section? Eric: Kelly?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

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. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Kate: In the trial we tested two nudges: one was called a focusing effect. Eric: Okay.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). That’s a lot of information [inaudible 00:35:43], but I share some of that. Where are my colleagues?”

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. So that part we know and I. Does that sound about right to you too? Is that a black box?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. In the community? But also one of the reasons we want to focus on the community was that actually most people with dementia live in the community.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Eric 29:20 Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I could walk down the hall and get information. 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. Number one, number of days you are in the community.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. I was getting asked to give talks on how do you do this? Eric: And thank you to all of our listeners for your continued support.

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