GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. Our consultation.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. LaVera: Yes.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Karl: Yeah, very much so.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

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. ” I think the family would like you to consider how to work with that. That dawned on me.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

Consulting 120

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. It makes patients and families feel better and outcomes better and quality of care better, and we can implement it. We’ve come so far as a field.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

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. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. That’s a big question.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 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. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. Take some time to get trust, to get real information.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here. What is your function? And do you die?

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. [laughter].

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And he was just such a great doctor and such a great advocate for families.

Patient-Centered 83

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83

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

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. I think you’re a loving family doing the best you can.” I think at least we like to think of ourselves as ahead of the curve. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73