GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Is this our role?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Have you thought about that?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. My oldest sister who I’ve written a little bit about, her name was Ellen.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. They are therefore the foundation of every healthcare system.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. Is that right?

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