GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? By diagnosis? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. By prognosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” How did you both get interested in this as a topic?

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79