GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. ” And we started in this way.

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IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Should we have like a list of diagnoses or prognosis. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. And then the final category, the third category is what we called the dignity conserving repertoire, which really has to do with kind of the spiritual, and psychological landscape and makeup of that individual. I mean, I was very much a clinician.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. People across all diagnoses want hospice care. Melissa: Yeah.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. Janet: It was this young man. He was in his mid twenties. And it started off with Tylenol then it went to low dose morphine.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. Like if you had a magic wand, you had healthcare providers, like, one thing they. Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125