Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options. Urgent care clinics are ideal for treating illnesses like the flu, strep throat, or severe colds. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey!

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Eric: So, before we jump into the topic of substance use disorder in aging and serious illness, I think someone has a song request. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Katie, before we jump into the topic of buprenorphine in serious illness, what’s the song request?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 103

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. It flows very well. Josh: Mm-hmm.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. What is a pragmatic trial ?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! That’s what I’m waiting for, Alex.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. Matt: We have seen pilot level studies, interventions like that one to do clinical ethics consultation.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. And so really thinking about all the ways in which someone’s whole self is affected by serious illness and including the right members of each piece of their life to be part of the team. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. So I think there are caveats and if you have a non immunocompromised, not severely ill patient that has again defervesced, then there is room for reducing the duration to three days for community acquired pneumonia.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. They were seriously ill and had a chance to get to know. What words to use?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. We did do another LGBT Care for Older Adults in Serious Illness Population with Carrie Kendrian and Angela Primbos. Happy pride and thanks for the invitation, Alex and E. And great to meet Jace on here.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

He looked very ill. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. There were rules a little bit, because the healthcare system likes to have some level of consistency as people move in. Eric: Is end-of-life doula death doula?

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

So if you think about 100 patients per year, that you need to have some benchmark after going into business to care for so many terminally ill patients. And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. It feels somewhat random in some ways.

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IT Provider Patients Families 115

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. And she couldn’t control her husband’s illness the way it was heading towards his death. How did you react? This is Eric Widera.

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Patients IT Families Family 110

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

So, I mean, one thing that I take from Winston’s great paper, which I consulted in writing mine and cited, although maybe not as frequently as I should have, is this idea that a lot of these terms, and I think this is a philosophical perspective that Winston and I are both sympathetic to. Sean 17:40 Yeah. This is not the way you break.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 115