Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

Mental Health Warning Signs Having an off day from time to time is completely normal. Short-term depression following a sad event, such as a death in the family or getting fired from a job, is expected. Teenagers with depression may also withdraw from friends and family, spending more time alone.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Cathy: Actually, many years ago, I did some research on delirium and then I was doing some research on nursing home residents and we were doing work looking at, I was interested in how sleep problems and nighttime events might lead to delirium, and then I just became very, very interested in sleep. Brienne: Same for us.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Globally, flooding is the most common type of extreme weather event (EWE) and >500 million children reside in flood zones worldwide. Climate change increases the frequency and severity of floods, with compounding effects on child health.” PW: How is climate change impacting children’s health globally? Shah, DO, and Maya I.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. Multiple members of this episode describe challenging experiences with bridging understanding of their elder family members that may mirror dynamics within Asian-American communities more broadly.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. I guess that’s an event.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Family member, and with some chagrin- Eric: Powerful nudge. Naomi: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

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. But I think for Liverpool, it’s not only the uncertainty, right.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. Firearms, physicians, families, and kids: Finding words that work. Pediatrics November 2012; 130 (5): e1416–e1423.

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Families Family Mental Health Healthcare 52

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: There were a total of 4,579 outreach events held of which 9.98% of the events targeted youth under 18 years old. Another 5.79% targeted young adults ages 19-29. Among COWs, 48.47% lived in the communities that they performed outreach in (18.7% preferred not to answer).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. Was that the same at MGH for.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And then access to those.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Doesn’t make any sense.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.

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