GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? I was always critical care bound since medical school.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. It works really well for us.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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Referral Family Medicine DO Primary Care 40

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: Yep.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Most palliative care clinicians would refer back to their primary care provider and not change their hydrochlorothiazide dose or add another agent. And they ask questions like, have you used substances? Most of our population has trauma. Should they?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. A Podcast with Caroline Stephens about her publication in JAGS where she studied palliative care-eligibility and POLST completion.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

But in California where I practice medical aid and dying is legal and similar to other issues that are controversial in some places, many physicians do not prescribe or do visits for medical aid and dying consultations. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care. What state are they in?

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73