GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I think … There’s so few, seriously, from the hospital system and the pathologizing systems to the more social care intervention work that Susan and I really do. There’s a whole age-friendly hospital systems that we are supposed to start our journey and keep going. She had been included. It supported her resilience.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? It can help prevent disability, or it can make a diagnosis and that’s it. Gretchen: It can help you live longer. Surgery does nothing else.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. Jennifer, welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73