GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. That’s where we’re focusing our efforts.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. But you’ve talked to people who are doing palliative care consults right now and I think have learned a lot about what this looks like in practice in terms of referral processes. Connie 21:45 Right, right.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. I’m not going to talk about finances. This happens so often/ we get consults from the intensive care unit, patient’s really sick, and you get this you know right away, this is not going to go well.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Caroline: I’ve had a lot of n of one experiences, or just clinical experience one on one, where I’ve had to, as the geropsych consultant, encourage families and providers to stop the feeding tube. And there’s really no reimbursable system for that.

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