Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. So, that’s why we did this project, the Delphi panel, to say what really should be recommended for medical and mental health care in assisted living?

Community 97

Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

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.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. They are complicated. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. So we tend to talk in terms of a geriatric assessment, the key domains. I like it, John.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129