GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? These are families who are in distress. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board. Absolutely clinicians are trying to do the right thing.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. People saw that there were people who needed to have supportive care, didn’t need to have the level of nursing that was provided in nursing homes, and there was money to be made. Eric: And who pays for assisted living communities?

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Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. 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. those experiencing homelessness).

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. But she didn’t die.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. Yes indeed, we like to hammer that home regularly, dear listeners.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. I came from a family where you didn’t write things down, somebody could find them and hold you to them or all of that kind of stuff. Rosanne: I certainly do.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So if you look at government websites about heat for example, it’s got a line of buttons across the top with affected populations, outdoor workers, athletes and older people are in there. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters?

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. They said, you know, we refer to mental health, we refer to social work because we have language concordant providers.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. So there’s this myth out there like, “Oh, homeless folks are just disconnected from their friends or family, and if only we connected them by Facebook, all would be good.”

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Everything.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians. Insurance companies.

IT 113

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. And then maybe KN95s, FFP2s and KF94s, if you wear them, at least in physical science studies, if you’re inside in a crowded where Warrior stadium or something, that should provide you some self protection.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. I think you’re a loving family doing the best you can.”

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73

GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. Well played.

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IT Community Government Management 70