GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. It’s another article, another major article that has triggered the complicated UTI circuit. But what I did want to highlight is how we got to thinking about men that have UTIs have complicated UTIs.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I honestly think it has to do with how complex the diseases and the complications that come from it. Amy 12:23 I find this one. What’s the goal?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones. I am not a board certified.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. Or not just address, but reassure, but also recommend things like smaller meals, etcetera.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I think it’s really, really complicated. Lauren: Really?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. ” Right?

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. What I often hear, grief, that normal, often, and we just had Holly Prigerson on the podcast talk about complicated grief, but grief in itself, that reaction, that is often triggered by loss. And we don’t talk about it as much.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us. you’re probably sleep deprived. Just stop right now.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. There is a tension.

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Diagnosis IT Diagnose Physicals 141