GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

My great-grandmother in particular had a very profound hearing loss and I don’t know, as a kid, I was obsessed with taking them apart and wanted to do more of the engineering side. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.”

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. It’s amazing how often when we’re taking care of somebody in the hospital, if you have Say, you know, a family member who is not showing up for visits with the medical team or who is. So help serves and hinders in everybody.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. I started on YouTube specifically because, Julie probably knows this, but YouTube is actually the second-largest search engine after Google.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? So, you really have to leave this up to the patients and their families to understand what the context is and what is meaningful to them. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? Their family members want them to get out of the hospital sooner. That’s in a, before a family meeting where you’re probably going to have a goals of care discussion, not in daily rounds.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Matt: I was going to say that you said something very clearly that we’ve heard in our NIH funded study around AI based prognostication talking to patients and family members and so on, that there’s a comfort level when it’s being used to identify people who might benefit from palliative care or benefit sooner.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99