GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. I think that there are some really great for-profit hospices out there that are actually able to provide more services and more open access for patients. And then at the regional level-.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine. I want to expand it from just the maid area.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think that policy in the emergency department is showing that no matter what that provider is looking to see if a patient has a preference. Gretchen Schwarze like surgery, four things, live longer, feel better, be more functional, make a diagnosis. Scott: Well, are we sure, Abby, that represents progress? Eric: Kelly?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there. They deal with that.

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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. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And that’s in addition to the financial, emotional companionship, and psychosocial support that spouses typically provide. Like if you had a magic wand, you had healthcare providers, like, one thing they. Eric 41:25 Great.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Eric: Okay.

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