GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. I think she’s the creator of the mini cog.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Eric 23:11 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They suffered from it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? Joel: Oh yeah.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. Bob: So I think it’s important.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo , a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker , an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. I was there and at University Hospitals, had a great visit.

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