Remove Consulting Remove Nurse Practitioner Remove Patients Remove Relationship
article thumbnail

The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

This was in part because we shared patients and patient experiences between our departments and had a bidirectional way of making warm handoffs. If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there.

article thumbnail

Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. How high is too high? Should considerations differ for people with dementia?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And so often we get consulted by teams that say, “I have this older patient and they’re pretty isolated and I think they have dementia. So they’re left out.

IT 102
article thumbnail

Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. Beth, welcome to GeriPal. Beth: Thank you. Greg, welcome to GeriPal. Is that right?

article thumbnail

Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

article thumbnail

PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults.

article thumbnail

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

GeriPal

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? Big randomized control study that came out.