My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

The EIB developed a first-of-its-kind tool to quantify how climate hazards like heatwaves, floods, and poor air quality will drive up healthcare demand across Europe. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. So what’s the path forward?

Healthcare Professional 52

Healthcare Professional Healthcare Finance 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 97

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

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 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. We save healthcare. Well, there’s my complaint. Nate 19:49 Yeah. I Recently, I turned 41.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

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. We can’t possibly provide enough care to all people with serious illness.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

They wanted time to prepare, to get their spiritual house in order, to get right with God, to think about moving near to the grandkids, to get their finances in order, to prepare their wills. Most of which, almost all of which were non-clinical, right? It was all about preparation, preparation, preparation. And have a great night, everybody.

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 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93