GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. Is that right, Nick?

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.”

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. Their family members want them to get out of the hospital sooner. If not, why not?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Those two things together, no increase in mortality but increase in hospice utilization, it doesn’t prove that palliative care is goal-concordant, but it’s certainly suggestive.

Consulting 120

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119