GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. The focus was on physical, psychological distress and managing expectation illness course and transplant course, understanding and coping.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. Did they screen charts? In reality, that is a huge cost saving for the hospital. Did they call the teams?

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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. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. What does that actually look like? And you start small.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. And you can work at different levels of prevention.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). That’s coming out in JP… Redwing: JPSM, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, yeah. Alex: Is that publication out? Alex: May 15th.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Because those experiments show that the actor being targeted, lipids for example, is part of the causal pathway to an undesired event. I do think that creates a little bit of disquiet where the borders between the expert physicians will decide what is a disease, freed of all conflicts, simply is a historical event. Jason: Yeah.

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