GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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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

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. Many were community hospitals. Prior-auth forms? Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee.

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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. Bubbles Up is following Bubbles Up as the song will elucidate. How do you see the light? The reality is how do you pay for it right now?

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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. Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. Lindsey: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. Well, the irony is that this diethye resurrected from the poorest communities in the mediterranean region.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So, and actually, all of this is actually document, I think what you guys are looking for is more practical advice on sort of management. So let’s use the one that I prefer to do, because I know this drug, that’s not how insurance companies work. Aries, why don’t you start and starting doses. Areej 34:19 Yeah, sure.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. How is it financed and what comes next?

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