GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. We didn’t think that there was something unique to the modality delivery in which palliative care was providing that care. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

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. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. Eric: Yeah.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

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. I like it, John. William: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. 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. those experiencing homelessness).

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. 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).

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. It’s by choice, just like in the community. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. They suffered from it.

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Families Family IT Community 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. And even a prostate cancer.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. So that’s the other part.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . What, published in JAMA IM? James: Yeah.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

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. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? You can’t even.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

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. This is what I do here. How can we have this conversation with you today?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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