GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. I think I feel more comfortable as a provider in trying to support people in their isolation.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. 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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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. Very, very few centers are providing those services. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. I heard this loud click. I couldn’t move any of my body.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. So if you are sick, I really encourage you, just take the time off. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Using data from wearable devices, internet searches, and purchasing history?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Also, the bill would curtail taxes that nearly every state levies on providers to help draw down billions in additional federal money, which generally leads to more money for hospitals. “They’ll do anything to see it stay open and provide good quality care to their neighbors, family members,” he said.

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