GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent years, pressures to decrease hospital length of stay and increase throughput, the rate at which patients are moved in and out of the system has contributed to a culture in many acute care environments where physical therapy functions primarily as a consultation service for discharge planning. Ann: My palliative care doc is great.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. Marie 03:42 So probably the most important thing is we developed the consultation as a culturally based consultation process. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. What is sludge? I highly encourage you. Kate 13:59 What did we do?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Now, some of the other secondary things, you know, you may have have seen if it was trigger of specialty palliative care consultations.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Further, FDA has utilized a variety of strategies to call attention to safety issues through Dear Doctor letters or other forms of communication, even if directing changes to labeling is difficult. A recent state law failure-to-warn case in the SDNY makes that very point.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. Alex: So we’ll see what these come out like.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I think that consistency of what is the expectation of our roles is crucial in a lot of ways, but that role is determined by the individuals we’re serving. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

They don’t have nearly the responsibilities that a certified nursing assistant has when thinking about utilities, groceries, rent, mortgage, all of that stuff on a monthly basis. Jasmine: Within the report, and that’s kind of tricky, we say we want more education, we want expanded roles, we want individuals to be able to do more.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. Depending on your geography, who you are as an individual, the ethical parameter you’re considering. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. 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.

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