GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Were these palliative care trained nurses and social workers? So, the training was largely around… It was different for the nurse. David: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). And how am I going to manage their pain?

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

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. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So that’s great. No, no, no.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. What are they accountable for? Eric: Great.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95