The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 when excluding those practicing in hospitals—marking the lowest rate in a decade. per 100,000 in 2022.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. Alex 22:05 Yeah.

Screening 119

Screening IT Family Families 119

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Bragging rights.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. Tim 43:15 I’m an educator at heart. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109