GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane: Thank you for having me. John: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And we’ll tell you the scope of practice, and this is top of license, and this is how you can best utilize a social worker and, no, actually that skillset belongs over here.” What does this diagnosis mean to you? Barbara: … to conduct the research, write the paper, do the thing that creates a publication.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. What they want is things that are important to them, maybe live longer.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Dani 15:02 Speaking to the fact that we are talking about such a massive array of illnesses, of presentations of symptom severity, and trying to speak in generalizations. I think it’s very present in maid. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. Ptsd, depression, anxiety.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

” And we can offer things, someone presents with a nutritional need, but we can say, ask about, “Do you need grab bars in your shower? 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. Do I have access to good food?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? They’re looking at difficult outcomes, utilization outcomes, right? Juliet: Sure.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98