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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. So, we’ve been seeing that there’s this increasing need for attending to the medical and mental health wellbeing of people in assisted living more so than before, because it’s not really just a social model of care.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network. That put me in the emergency room. Eric 45:00 And then mental health disorders, schizophrenia, like, how do you think about that? And I started to use cannabis, and it helped me get off all of my medications.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Really, only thing that I think was really in the biomedical health services literature at that time was probably Carla’s paper on loneliness. Or was that just the lingering conversations?

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. So, for example, in my essay, I initially used the phrase emergency room, and JAMA said, “We use emergency department.”

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. I should pay attention to it, too.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point.