My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

And yet, the global health sector receives less than 1% of all climate adaptation finance. We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness.

Healthcare Professional 52

Healthcare Professional Finance Healthcare Education 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anne Kelly: And I might add to what Anne just described in saying, I think part of the way we got to talking, getting to be able to engage the family is because we took some time to really improve our patient’s illness understanding. I’m not going to talk about finances. Eric: Lynn or Anne? I’m the doctor.

Families 98

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. And I wonder when we think about targeting particular population, it’s not just, you know, how seriously ill they are.

Community 96

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. Most of the public wants to have access to treatments and interventions that might help them forestall a devastating illness. You should be scared.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. That’s a difficult decision to make, and providing these estimates can help clinicians and patients with that type of shared decision-making. Most of which, almost all of which were non-clinical, right?

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And so trying to think a little bit more about what could be driving some of those alterations in the trajectory for all kinds of serious illness.

Illness 63

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63