GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? David: We used the VA specific care assessment needs score, which- Eric: Oh, the CAN score.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. 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.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. Do you worry about that? We actually have the majority. Mazie, what’s your one?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And then I immediately realized that I was fighting going into a mental health discipline because of my parents’ background in mental health as psychologists. The post Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Illness IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

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