GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. 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. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But that was a small pot of money and we went to first call a handy person, it was going to be $500 for a consultation, let alone the installation, and we were like, “This is absolutely cost-prohibitive. Same thing with kind of medication management. We’ll get four people done.” We do that in medicine all the time.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. It improves symptom management. Ruth: We wanted to control for those regional factors.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Get the hospice referral. So I’m just going to share on my screen. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73