GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. And of note, these concepts are not mutually exclusive. Eric 29:17 Why do you think that is? So where I would put it is stress.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. The last time we had you on the podcast, Bill, you talked about your cancer diagnosis and a personal experience with MAID, which you also, we’ll have a link to your blog post too about this as well. So they have to self-administer. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. We know what’s going to happen. Eric 43:12 Okay.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We really like the community doctors to know, so those of you listening, that our patients, they’ve lost their physical freedom, but they have autonomy in terms of their medical decision-making just like anybody else. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. We also look at their mental health.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing.

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