GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And so they can go to frankaustdeseski.com or mettainstitute.org and find out about upcoming workshops and that sorts of thing. I cracked myself in my head of these individuals. But it also made me think.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. My theory is that more people were seen by inpatient palliative care.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. And do you die?

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73