GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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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. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

And that part of the intervention that maybe goes unrecognized in the article, but is really clear here, is the way in which this, as you said before we started podcasting, the way in which it built community and the way in which you helped each other and helped clinicians and really like. Alex 32:19 Because they’re not driving or.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Tim 40:33 Yeah, I was going to say, I think, you know, we talked about kind of external to the health system, but within health systems, I think certainly things like social determinants of health screening that gets at a lot of these issues of loneliness, transportation. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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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. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. A love letter kind of back to my community.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And it’s like Kathleen noted, most of the time you would have to send someone out of the building, you’d have to, to get transportation arranged, and you would have to take them to an outpatient visit, which is very, very difficult, particularly for people with dementia. Connie 31:36 Particularly for people with dementia.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So when we think about independence, being able to get to the place that we want to be, we’re reliant on things like transportation, whether it be cars or trucks or trains, and how society is built around that. Whether again, be transportation, food delivery, things like that. So that gives you a sense of perspective.

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