GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” And having a cancer diagnosis and treatment is freaking stressful. Eric: Go ahead. Sure, yeah.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 07:02 And real quick, Sarah, who do you see?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist?

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. ” It allows that relationship. That’s been reported previously. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And honestly, this was not a well planned out thing. What about stage four?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. English or spanish speakers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. We have a lot of loss of libido, loss of physical intimacy as a result of the changing dynamic in the relationship.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. You didn’t ask about it, but for us, it was very important to examine differences for older adults with a diagnosis of dementia. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. We were agnostic on the timing.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79