GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. Prior-auth forms? I highly encourage you.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country. Alex: Psychedelics, promise and pitfalls. There was an article in New York Times last week about rampant prescribing of psychedelics.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

We cover a wide range on this topic, weaving in our own stories of loss with Thomas’s experiences, stories, and poems from years of caring for families after their loved one’s have died. And this seems very basic, but try it with your insurance agent or your pastor, you know, or your banker at 03:00 in the morning.

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IT Family Families Relationship 124

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

The technology committee however, is interested in using technology and coming up with a new set of goals, priorities and preferences and basing the process on working with nursing home residents, care partners or family members if they’re involved. And the technology piece, so doing less with staff. Tell me about that. Eric: Okay.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me. Don’t worry about their alcohol use or drug use. Give some pleasure.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. That’s a big question.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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

AUGUST 1, 2024

And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. So I lived with a family there. But if your patient is not able to do those things, I wouldn’t say don’t have insurer. So I realized, okay, it can be kind of a malleable concept.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

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.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. And that’s a totally, totally appropriate question. Eric: Yeah.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115