GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. That’s really falling apart. Physical activity is a big one. So, that’s one thing.

Physicals 85

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 85

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. I mean, there is so much substance use stigma in healthcare. Katie: Sure.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

I think that, as Ramona will talk about and elucidate a bit further, is just a recognition that in this country we have traditionally, and to my mind continue to do so, cause serious harm to Black people, that you can see that play out within healthcare in ways that are both big and small. It can influence education systems.

IT 91

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. It’s one of my old, old patients.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. Cause they all brought their own style and they all were educational in different ways. Eric 29:17 Yeah, so.

IT 64

IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133