GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

My wife, who’s a PhD nurse practitioner, who actually was a founding dean of the nursing school at GW, and I were thinking about, well, we’re not sure we want to work for somebody else all the time. We make a diagnosis. Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. Is that right?

Board-Certified 110

Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:32 For us, answering that question today, we have Joe Greer, who’s a psychologist and associate professor of psychology at MGH and Harvard Medical School. So they had to be within three months of diagnosis and they were going to be randomly assigned to either the traditional model that we’ve been testing.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. And then, the system responds in turn.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130