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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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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

Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. ” That’s not a spiritual screen. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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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. 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

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. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health.

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