GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We pepper Sarah with questions ranging from: Why should we care about falls? What are ways we should screen for falls? 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And that made me think more about, they’ve been dealing with these illnesses for many years before we even met them in the ICU, and why aren’t we doing more of this care where they live? In their communities? If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. “Do you guys do this?” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And following these guidelines is really important because geriatric and palliative care related problems are really common. To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. And then as it grew, I just was viewing the entire enterprise as a love letter to health care. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 14:03 I mean, back to Cari’s, you know, what Cari was talking about, about financial barriers to palliative care services in the nursing home setting. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams. Eric 30:01 That’s beautiful. right there. So it makes perfect sense.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s a lot of different ways to think about it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Eric: … there was care processes. Care processes, insufficient numbers of staff to feed. But we did see a trend where the three highest nursing homes were the most unpleasant.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. So the other part of that thing I would say is all of those things are true about the difference in rates between a community.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. We had submitted a grant to try to establish best practices and I think palliative care programs across the country, especially in the outpatient space, we’re really starting to see how it might add value. Go ahead Eric. I’m sorry.

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