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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies. Finally, collaborative care models where the HIV clinician, mental health professional, and case management work as a team can help improve mental health outcomes in Black women.

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Mental Health Healthcare Professional Community Healthcare 114

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. Lynn 15:55 Well, it’s a good. And well skilled. So it matters.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. Throw it in the trash.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Welcome back Lona.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

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. Emmy: Yeah.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. It’s by choice, just like in the community. Did I get that close?

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Families Family IT Community 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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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 ). These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But before I became a nurse I had a long career at Procter & Gamble in brand management and I worked on the Covergirl and Max Factor business. Even with this whole discussion about diversity, even in our regular community, we are not actually making progress when you look at nationally weighted surveys. ” Bingo.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. Over time, communication improves. Here are the key results.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. It improves symptom management. Ruth: Absolutely. Of intensively hand feeding?

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

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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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. In our planning sessions, one of the biggest barriers to advanced care planning in this community is just talking about death. So ultimately, you know, we had to get buy in at. Is that right?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? 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. But I’m guessing you all bring it up, and I wonder.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them.

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