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Improving Mental Health: Strategies for Self-Care and Well-Being

Family Physicians of Greeley

Create a relaxing bedtime routine, avoid screens before bed, and ensure your sleeping environment is comfortable and conducive to restful sleep. If you struggle with sleep difficulties, consider implementing relaxation techniques or consulting with a healthcare professional.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. Eric: And how do we screen for it? Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

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. So in this case consultations. Because now it requires another step to cancel the consult.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Why is it called a clinic?

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions. And a screening is one to two simple sentences to identify need in that or distress in that domain.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. And in the community, not just in acute care”, which is just… First day of nursing school, they’ve told us, “You have to remember that a hospitalization is a blip on somebody’s screen. Alex: Yeah.