GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. They’re still engaging fully with their family and with the activities and the hobbies that they’re still able to do. Eric: Go ahead. You want to talk about it? Sure, yeah.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” Most of our population has trauma.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist? A pill organizer, having family.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. ” It allows that relationship. Maybe it’s about time that we start talking about some of these things.”

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130