Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Many of us are taught in medical school and residency the importance of patient communication on improving patient satisfaction scores, quality metrics, and professional fulfillment. However, a less examined aspect is patient and community engagement outside traditional healthcare settings.

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Chronic Disease Management Community Chronic Disease Education 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I wonder if you could say a little bit more about the meta Institute in particular and what it is that clinicians today can do to learn, to be more present and learn about the need to be thoughtful and compassionate in the care that they provide people with serious illness. Frank 08:43 Well, briefly. Where can they go?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 123

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And so trying to think a little bit more about what could be driving some of those alterations in the trajectory for all kinds of serious illness.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 60

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. So, for example, the intervention visits had to be delivered by a physician or advanced practice provider.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. Louise: Well again, if you take that approach, you also get rid of ableism and ageism against children and prejudice against people who are ill. Rosanne: I certainly do.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 106

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. To let it go. . AlexSmithMD . Redwing: Absolutely.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93